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[TEXT:] 1001 Inventions
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SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m
delighted to send greetings
to each of you at this
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year’s 1001 Inventions,
celebrating a millennium of
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science and innovation in the
Muslim world.
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This exhibition honors the
remarkable accomplishments of
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Muslims throughout history: from
a woman who founded a university
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in the ninth century, to a
13th-century inventor
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and mechanical engineer, to a
surgeon whose writings
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influenced European medicine for
hundreds of years,
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and so many more.
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And of course, we’re looking at
the impact of
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technology in the Muslim world
right now as young people
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throughout the Middle East and
North Africa find new ways to
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use social networking to get
organized
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and to express their
aspirations.
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Connection technologies offer an
unprecedented opportunity:
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a platform through which
everyone,
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from farmers to students to
entrepreneurs, can exchange
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ideas and hatch plans for the
world’s next great invention.
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But technology does not
decide the future; people do.
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So as this exhibition shows, the
Muslim world has a proud history
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of innovators.
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Now is the time to tap into that
legacy to
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harness the power of science and
technology, and to create new
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pathways to prosperity.
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This is an exciting day,
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and thank you for letting me
share it with you.
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[TEXT:] 1001 Inventions
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[TEXT] A Global Phenomenon
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[TEXT] Over 1,000,000
Exhibition Visitors
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12,000,000 Film Downloads
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BEN KINGSLEY AS AL-JAZARI:
Take a look. If you dare.
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STUDENT 1:
What’s going on?
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KINGSLEY: Welcome to “The Dark Ages.”
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Or, as it should be known, “The
Golden Ages.”
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SALIM AL-HASSANI:
We have about a thousand years
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of amnesia which is called “The
Dark Ages.”
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CHRIS RAPLEY:
In the West, we went through
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“The Dark Ages,” and, if you
like, the candle of
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human knowledge and
understanding
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was carried by the Islamic
world.
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AL-HASSANI:
That’s the story
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we want to give. It’s like a
shock.
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“Ah, inventions! Do these
people have inventions?”
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they say. Well, of course
they do!
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NARRATOR:
1001 Inventions is a global
educational initiative.
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Imagine a world of science
1,000 years ago
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that shaped the world
today.
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BETTANY HUGHES:
This is a world that was lost
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to so many people, and an
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exhibition like this brings it
back to life
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and shares all those
extraordinary achievements.
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PETER FELL: I think this is
quite crucial because what it
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does is illustrate the shared
heritage that we all have.
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We talk about a global society
today, but equally,
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in the seventh, eighth, ninth and
10th centuries,
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society was global then as well.
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AL-HASSANI: This
new space is using the
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historical roots of science as a
means and as a
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tool for social cohesion
and cultural convergence,
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where people respect and
harmonize with each other.
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[TEXT:] A Magical Film
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[TEXT:] Over 25 Prestigious
Film Awards
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[TEXT] Ben Kingsley plays
Al-Jazari
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STUDENT 1: Er, excuse me, where
are we going?
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Al-Jazari: From darkness into
light, my young friend.
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From ocean on to land.
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There are things you should
know.
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Oh yes, indeed!
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[TEXT] Inspired by our
bestselling book
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[TEXT] A World Class Exhibition
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[TEXT] Launched in London
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[TEXT] Now across the world
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BBC NEWS PRESENTER: It’s got a
huge water-powered clock,
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instruments for measuring the
stars,
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and a dark room from the ninth
century.
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And on top of all that,
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it can explain why numbers are
written the way they are.
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A new exhibition traces how
the Muslim civilization has
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influenced science for the
last thousand years.
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LORD WALDEGRAVE: It’s a
wonderful teaching resource
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we’ve now got here.
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VISITOR 1: We’ve learned how to
translate words from English to
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Arabic in a matter of seconds.
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VISITOR 2: If they never thought
of any this back then,
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we wouldn’t be having cameras
and cinemas nowadays.
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FELL: The exhibition is a
blockbuster.
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In London we had 450,000 people
through the doors.
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Similar number in Istanbul.
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And here in New York we’re
beginning to track large numbers
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of people into the Hall of
Science.
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VISITOR 3 (speaking in Turkish):
I recommend everyone
to come and visit here.
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Such a lovely place
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Visitor 4 (speaking in Turkish):
Very good indeed.
I recommend it to everyone.
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I’ve learnt lots of scientific
and historic facts.
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JIM AL-KHALILI:
During this period,
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it may have been part of
the Islamic empire,
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but there were great Jewish,
Christian scholars working
here ...
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M. EL-GOMATI:
... Sabean, Hindus, Buddhists...
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AL-KHALILI: They were
Persians, they were Arabs,
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they were Turks, they were
Chinese, they were Indian —
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it’s just a period in history
that people in the West
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don’t seem to know about.
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HUGHES: There are women
who did things like
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set up universities, who
invented scientific experiments,
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and they’re really celebrated
in this exhibition.
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LORD WALDEGRAVE: It’s done with
wonderful imagination and flair,
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as well as good scholarship.
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AL-HASSANI: You will learn,
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but you will be excited.
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IAN FENN: I’m just completely
enchanted by it.
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AL-HASSANI: It’s not
just nice pictures
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and electronics.
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Every word and letter
has been thoroughly vetted
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by academic peers.
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We have a galaxy of historians
of science from
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around the world.
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AL-KHALILI:
This is historical fact, guys.
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The world may not know about it,
but they should do.
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AL-HASSANI:
It’s a new space.
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It’s a breath of fresh air.
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We are having a journey to the
past,
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but it’s for building and
designing a better future.
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[TEXT] Globally sponsored by
Abdul Latif Jameel Community
Initiatives
[TEXT] 1000 Inventions, an initiative
of Foundation for Science Technology
and Civilisation