What inventions did the Jewish people make?

Answer 1

The Jews invented The Bible: the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Psalms and Chronicles. The Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh.

Answer:

Strictly speaking, the Bible is not an invention, so the previous answer is wrong. Here is a better answer in the Related Link below from Kathryn Bernheimer's presentation on why Jews have been innovators in disproportionate numbers at "Smashing the Idols: A Teach-in and Launch of MoVeRs":

Answer 2

The Hebrews were origanaly the Israelites, but after Moses led them to freedom the Israelites became the Hebrews or Jews.

Here are some Hebrew or Jewish inventions: (see also the attached Related Links)

in no particular order:

Drip Irrigation, Scale Model Electric Trains, the Pager, the Walkie-talkie, Refrigerated Railroad Car, High-vacuum Electron Tubes, the Incandescent Lamp, Kodachrome Film, the Blimp, the Adding Machine, Stainless Steel, Tapered Roller Bearings

Prozac, Valium, The Polio Vaccine, Radiation, Chemotherapy, the Artificial Kidney Dialysis machine, the Defibrillator, the Cardiac Pacemaker, Vaccination against the "Hepatitis B" virus, the Vaccinating Needle, Laser Technology

Google, the Wire Transmission Facsimilie (FAX) , the Microphone, the Gramophone, the Microprocessing Chip, Optical Fiber Cable, Laser, Cellular Technology, the Videotape Recorder

Discount Stores, Pawn Shops, the Shopping Cart and the Ready-to-Wear Clothing Industry

Cafeterias, cheesecake

Monotheism, Psychoanalysis, the Theory of Relativity, the Weekend (Shabbat)

the Sit-Com, the Long Playing Record, Woodstock, Sound Movies, Videotape, Color Television, Instant Photography, Holography

Jeans, Lipstick, the Ballpoint Pen, Contraceptives, Instant Coffee, Television Remote Control, Traffic Lights, Scotchguard, the Flexistraw.

Many of the "Freedom Riders" in the South were Jewish, some were killed,

Answer 3

The Jewish faith puts a very great deal of emphasis on learning and study which, when combined with the traditionally very close and supportive typical Jewish family, has meant that a far higher percentage of Jewish young people enjoy the benefits of a university education than is the case with followers of other religions (this why, even today, some people - both Jewish and not Jewish - believe that Jewish people are more intelligent than other people despite there being no scientifically valid evidence for this whatsoever).

This has ensured that Jewish people are extremely well represented in the sciences - for example, between 1901 and 2008, 163 out of a total of 750 Nobel Prize winners were Jewish, despite the fact that only around 0.2% of the world's entire population are Jewish. Among these Nobel winners are Albert Einstein, Milton Friedmann, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman - household names even in households that don't regularly discuss science.

If we look at the Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003's list of Great Inventions since 13,000 BCE and compare the number of items on the list - 321 - to the percentage of the world's population that are Jewish, statistically we would expect to see at the most one Jewish inventor on the list. However, allowing for inventions credited to more than one person (and thus, somewhat inelegantly, giving rise to necessary partial numbers) there are 13.7. Among them are Paul Zoll, inventor if the cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator machine (without which many more people would die of heart problems), Charles Ginsburg, inventor of videotape, Denis Gabor, inventor of holographic photography, Levi Strauss, inventor of jeans and Lazlo Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen.

Jewish people have had an enormous impact in the field of nuclear physics, so much so that it was popularly known as "the Jewish science" in the middle of the 20th Century and giving rise to arguments from some historians that had Hitler - who was well aware of the potential of nuclear weapons - not have killed or driven out the majority of Germany's Jewish scientists, World War 2 might have had a very different outcome. Oppenheimer, commonly credited as the inventor of the atom bomb, was Jewish, as was Edward Teller who invented the hydrogen bomb. Both devices - along with nuclear power - would have been delayed by many years had it not have been for the physics of Einstein.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_inventors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_scientists_and_philosophers