Chinese Inventions

  • Tea
    2700 BCE

    Tea

    Tea is made by letting tea leaves steep in boiling water was drunk mostly as medicine.
  • Alcohol
    2100 BCE

    Alcohol

    Yi Di created alcohol thinking it teaches you about history
  • Period: 300 BCE to 1400

    Chinese History

  • Steel
    200 BCE

    Steel

    Later they learned that blowing air into molten, or melted, cast iron causes a chemical reaction that creates steel. Steel is a great deal stronger than iron.
  • Porcelain
    50

    Porcelain

    Porcelain is made by combining clay with the minerals quartz and feldspar. The mixture is baked in a kiln, or pottery oven, at very high temperatures. The resulting pottery is white, hard, and waterproof. However, light can pass through it, so that despite its sturdiness it looks quite delicate and beautiful.
  • Paper
    150

    Paper

    Paper making became an important industry in China. For more than 500 years, the Chinese were the only people in the world who knew the secret of making paper.
  • Printing
    600

    Printing

    To print from the block, the printer covered the characters with black ink. Then he spread paper over the block and smoothed the paper with a brush. Some artists still use block printing today to create fine art prints.
  • Game cards
    800

    Game cards

    Printers used woodblock printing to make the cards from thick paper. Famous artists drew the designs that appeared on the backs of the cards.
  • Gunpowder
    850

    Gunpowder

    Accidentally discovered by alchemists who were looking for secret to eternal life.
  • Rocket Tecnology
    1300

    Rocket Tecnology

    Rockets were used in fireworks and weapons