Every country has its inventors and the most populous country in the world is bound to have a lot of them. There is indeed a sizable list of things invented by the Chinese.
List of Chinese Inventions | ||
---|---|---|
Battens in sails and cloth | ||
Blast furnace | ||
Cast iron | ||
Chinese cuisine: Tofu, Ramen sushi | ||
Chinese clothing: Qipao, Hanfu | ||
Chopsticks | ||
Crank,drugs | ||
Repeating crossbow | ||
Escapement mechanism for clocks | ||
Exploding cannonball | ||
Fire Arrow | ||
Gunpowder | ||
Firearm | ||
Horse collar | ||
Hull compartments/bulkheads | ||
Indian ink | ||
Kite | ||
Land mines | ||
Lottery | ||
Menus for Song-era restaurants | ||
Naval mines | ||
Noodles | ||
Paper | ||
Pendulum (Zhang Heng) | ||
Printing (woodblock printing and movable type) | ||
Rockets: Fire Arrow, Multistage rocket | ||
Rudder | ||
Sailing carriage | ||
Seismometer (of Zhang Heng) | ||
Silk | ||
South Pointing Chariot (differential gear, of Ma Jun) | ||
Sluice gates | ||
Toilet paper | ||
Traditional Chinese medicine | ||
Trebuchet (traction) | ||
Trip hammer | ||
Winnowing machine | ||
Abacus | ||
Armillary sphere | ||
Bellows | ||
Belt drive | ||
Bituminous coke for the iron and steel industry | ||
Compass | ||
Camera obscura | ||
Cardan Suspension | ||
The cannon | ||
Chain drive | ||
Chain pumps | ||
Chinese calendar | ||
Crossbow | ||
Drydock | ||
The Flamethrower | ||
Flash lock | ||
Early explosive grenades | ||
Odometer | ||
Paddle wheel, for boats | ||
Paper money | ||
Parachutes | ||
Pontoon bridge | ||
Porcelain | ||
Postal system | ||
Pound lock | ||
Saw | ||
Scissors | ||
Steel | ||
Suspension bridge | ||
Star catalogue | ||
Tea | ||
Umbrella | ||
Vaccination | ||
Water clock | ||
Waterwheel | ||
Wheelbarrow | ||
Windmill |
This is bad. Give some info am I right
I really wish there was info or links to get the info but I got the info elsewhere but it was a nice start.