Wednesday, August 25, 2010

How about the jet engine?

Other giants of innovation during the 1,000-year period that began in the seventh century were physician Al-Zahrawi, whose innovations shaped European surgery, and Fatima Al-Fihri, whose multi-subject institute of learning, with no gender restrictions, laid foundations for the modern university... One curiosity is a replica of the flying machine of Abbas ibn Firnas, who constructed a winged framework near Cordoba in Spain and flew briefly before injuring himself.

2 comments:

Mr roT said...

What about the IED. That gets shit flyin too.

Tecumseh said...

So Fatima Al-Fihri invented the modern university? Ach so. Quick, let Harvard know. They must name a building for her.