We went to the 1001
inventions exhibition in the Jordan museum. It about lots of
inventions that were discovered in the Middle East in ‘The Golden
Age.’, which were the Dark Ages in Europe.
This is Ibn Haytham,
he worked out how the eye works and did lots of experiments with
lenses and mirrors hundreds of years before any other scientists did
similar things.
Abbas
ibn Firnas was the world’s first pilot. He found out how birds fly
and tried to become a bird himself by attaching feathers to his body
and two wings that he could flap. Then he jumped off a tower and
succeeded in gliding to the ground. On this simulator we had to flap our arms as fast and as long as we could to see how far we could go.
Many rock formation
on the moon are named after Golden Age inventors and scientists.
This section was to
show that many inventions and discoveries from the Golden Age are still used today,
such as drinking coffee, studying at university, algebra, the toothbrush, the crank and hospitals.
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