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Chinese Inventions

  • Tea
    2700 BCE

    Tea

    Ever since 2700 BCE, tea has been drank in China. However, until the 8th Century AD, it was used mainly for medicine. After the 8th Century came, it was extremely liked and an every day drink for people all throughout China. Even till today, tea has been an important thing to the Chinese culture
  • Period: 300 BCE to 1400

    Chinese History

  • The Compass
    250 BCE

    The Compass

    They Chinese, as early as the 3rd century BCE, made a compass from a magnetic material called lodestone to help them get around.
  • Steel
    200 BCE

    Steel

    This was very useful, due to its strength, for the Chinese in 200 BCE. This creation was crucial China because in the 1800's during the Industrial Revolution in the West, steel was mass produced.
  • Porcelain
    50

    Porcelain

    Porcelain is a very delicate form of pottery that is often called China because of its origins. Later on after the creation, people learned how to paint on the vases, plates, and bowls, that were mass produced in the country.
  • Disease Prevention
    50

    Disease Prevention

    The Chinese were very advanced for there time when it came to medicine. A tactic they used was the burning of a poisonous smoke after a person that had a disease had died. This was a very early disinfectant. Around that time, a Chinese monk recommended steaming the clothes of the sick. Later in the 10th century, they figured out how to inoculate a person from smallpox. The Chinese doctors took the scabs of ill and made them into powder for people who wanted to be healthy to take into there body.
  • Paper
    150

    Paper

    The Chinese made paper that was probably made of hemp and the bark of a mulberry tree. Also, for 500 years, the Chinese were the only who new how to create paper.
  • Printing
    650

    Printing

    The technique they used to print was called woodblock printing. First he wrote the letters/symbols on paper, then he glued the paper to a wooden block, after that when the glue was dry, the printer carved out the wood around the characters, leaving the characters raised on the wood. He covered that with black ink and pressed that on the paper which was printing.
  • The Mechanical Clock
    750

    The Mechanical Clock

    The clock was much more accurate compared to the sun dials and hour glasses that were used prior to the invention. It consisted of a wheel that made a full rotation after reaching 24 hours. Water dripping caused the wheel to turn. Later, a more advanced version made again by the Chinese but was even more accurate.
  • Gunpowder
    850

    Gunpowder

    Created on accident by Chinese alchemist who were looking to create eternal life, which today takes lives.