1. A Brief History of Innovation
Javed Mohammed
k2film@live.com
2012

2. Once upon a time man was cold

3. So he invented fire
1,000,000 BC??

4. He used fire and tools to invent
60,000 BC

5. And so process of innovation began
Egyptians: Twisted Rope
17,000 BC

6. Then the Wheel
Ancient Sumer (modern Iraq)
5,000 BC

7. Papyrus (Paper)
Ancient Chinese & Egyptians
4,000 BC

8. Cataract surgery
Ancient India
6th century BCE

9. Printing – movable type
Ancient Chinese
Song Dynasty: 960 – 1279 AD

10. Gun Powder
Ancient Chinese
1044 AD

11. Torsion catapult
Ancient Greeks

12. Screw, Gears
Ancient Greeks

13. Trigonometric functions
(adapted from Greeks)
5th century AD

14. Abacus
Ancient Romans

15. Aqueduct
Ancient Romans

16. Human Civilization rests on
Cuisine
Transportation Language
Religions
Science and Innovations
Social Customs
Architecture
Industry and Agriculture

17. There were innovations in each area

18. After the Greeks & Romans there were
the Dark ages for 1000 years

20. Now the turn of the Muslims
and their Golden Civilization

21. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Father of Modern Surgery, Spain
11th century

22. Jabir Ibn Haiyan - 721-815 CE
Father of Chemistry

23. Ar-Razi – 9th Century
Father of Pediatrics

24. Ibn – Khaldun – 1332-1406
1332-
Father of Modern Sociology

25. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) – 980 CE
Father of Medicine
Father of Clinical Pharmacology

26. Ibn al-Haytham 965-1039 CE
Founder of Optics
Study of Light

27. Mathematics, Arabic Numbering
System and number Zero

28. The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qānūn
fī al-ṭibb)
The most famous single book in the history of medicine
in both East and West.

29. Renaissance
The revival of art and literature started
in Europe
14th–16th centuries

30. Industrial Revolution
18th-19th Century starting in Europe
and then America

31. Changes in agriculture, manufacturing,
mining, transportation, and
technology

32. Combustion Engine

33. Telegraph

34. Telephone

35. Lightbulb
Thomas Edison

36. Airplane

37. Modern Flushing Toilet

38. Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
1928

39. Personal Computer

40. World Wide Web

41. Which led to 21st century Innovations

42. Cell phone/Smart phone

43. Most inventions today result of
Industrial and Information Revolution

44. But they are all interconnected:
Innovation Web
Human Civilization
Western Chinese
Islamic
Greek
Persian
Roman
Byzantine Egyptian Indian

45. So go ahead

46. Innovate!

47. Make the world a better place

48. References
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Javed Mohammed
k2film@live.com