Chinese inventions

  • Period: 150 to Feb 16, 1400

    Chinese Inventions

  • paper
    200

    paper

    invented art of paper making from hemp and trees at first they used as blankets and shoes
  • steel
    200

    steel

    made the first steel, a very useful metal. it is made from iron, you can bend it
  • printing
    Feb 17, 700

    printing

    they made paper better by making wha tthey glued paper to wooden blocks
  • tea
    Feb 17, 800

    tea

    they have been drinking tea since the 8th century. they drank it mostly as medicine
  • Military: gunpowder
    Feb 16, 850

    Military: gunpowder

    Gun powder was acidentally invented by alcamists trying to find the cure to a longer life. Gun powder was used for weapons like flamethrowers and artillary
  • travel by sea
    Feb 17, 850

    travel by sea

    since the compass was made it helped find your way in the sea.
  • compass
    Feb 17, 850

    compass

    aligns itself with magnetic poles in the earth. one points north and the other points south
  • porcilin
    Feb 17, 1000

    porcilin

    they made a pottery called porcilin. it was made in the first century
  • mechanical clock
    Feb 17, 1092

    mechanical clock

    it was more accurate, and the old one they changed every 24 hours