Chinese Inventions/Discoveries

By Jake34
  • 800 BCE

    Tea

    Tea
    Tea used to be a very popular everyday beverage throughout China. Which is ironic considering that the fact that they were the ones who invented it.
  • 618 BCE

    Canal lock

    Canal lock
    A canal lock is a gate that would lower to hold in water. The water was then allowed to rise until it reached the level of water up ahead.
  • 401 BCE

    Paddle-wheel boat

    Paddle-wheel boat
    The paddle-wheel boat was a boat with a treadmill people walked on l to turn a paddle-wheel to move the boat forward.
  • 300 BCE

    Magnetic Compass

    Magnetic Compass
    The Chinese developed a compass that was basically pieces of a magnetic mineral called lodestone.
  • 200 BCE

    Paper

    Paper
    The Chinese invented the art of paper making and where the only people in the world who knew the secret of it.
  • 1 BCE

    Disease Prevention?

    Disease Prevention?
    Before the 1st century, the Chinese didn’t really have that good of a method for curing illnesses. They used a chemical that gave of a poisonous smoke, because they thought it would destroy whatever was causing the disease.
  • 101

    Printing

    Printing
    The Chinese invented a technique called woodblock printing. Which was basically a pressing a picture onto a woodblock and then carving it.
  • 850

    Gunpowder

    Gunpowder
    Alchemists were people who experimented with mixtures of natural ingredients, to try and find a substance that might allow people to live forever. However, one experiment resulted in the discovery of gunpowder.
  • 1300

    Rocket technology

    Rocket technology
    At first, rockets were used only as fireworks. Later, the Chinese decided to use them as weapons. They even developed a two-stage rocket for their armies, so that’s nice.