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1001 Islamic Inventions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the innovations-come-from-everywhere dept.

pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

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  1. Al Gore-ithms by Kenshin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought Al Gore created algorihtms! To program the internet, you know.

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  2. Re:But... by jcr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I love how religious threads like this are populated by people who think they have universal knowledge

    Well, fuck you, too.

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  3. Re:Computer Science 101 by DanQuixote · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wait, I thought algorithm was named after the guy that created the internet...

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