Originally Posted by DVTimes

Islamic inventors:

1. coffee
2. Camera
3. chess
4. flying machine
5. soap
6. perfumes
7. alcoholic spirits
8. crank-shaft
9. Quilting
10. Gothic cathedrals is based on Islamic architecture
11. surgical instruments
12. windmill
13. inoculation
14. fountain pen
15. numbering
16. three-course meal
17. Carpets
18. cheque
19. gunpowder for weapons
20. kitchen and herb gardens

- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...ld-469452.html