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Period: 300 BCE to 1400
Chinese Inventions
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200 BCE
Steel
The Chinese was the first to make steel. Steel is less brittle than ironand can bend into different objects easer. -
50
Porcelain
Porcelain is a type fine pottery, made from combining clay with quartz and feldspar. Then, is baked in a kiln at a very high temperature. -
100
Compass
Made of pieces of magnetic materials called lodestone. The Chinesethen later started to use a steel needle insted of loadstone. -
150
Paper
Early paper was probably made from hemp and bark from the mulberry tree. Later the Chinses would use rags to make paper. -
450
Paddle Wheel Boat
The Chinese started to adopt the idea of arranging paddles in a wheel and powered by sailors walking on a treadmill to turn the wheel and move through the water -
618
Bridge
A Chinese engineer designed a new type of arched bridge, the new Chinese bridges had arches that were a smaller part of a cicle. This new design made the bridge broader and flatter, also it takes less materials to build and is stronger. -
800
Paper Money
Like cards, paper money was printed with wood blocks. Before, the invention of paper money, the Chinese people would use coins or trade objects. -
850
Gun Powder
Chinese alcemistis accidentaly discovered when looking for the secert for eturnal life. -
950
Weapon using Gunpowder
The Chinese used gunpowder for the flamethrower, they were the first use gunpowder for weapons
