Abbas Ibn Firnas was a very creative engineer and inventor who successfully constructed the first successful flying machine. His flying machine was a controlled one and he also demonstrated its flight, many centuries before the designs of Leonardo Da Vinci.

#lostislamichistory The first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia & describe an abdominal pregnancy, a subtype of ectopic pregnancy that in those days was a fatal affliction,the first to discover the root cause of paralysis. He developed surgical devices for Caesarean sections