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Chinese
Inventions |
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These
are truely firsts in world development, and do not include
adaptions of things from other cultures:
Chinese Inventions Timeline
| Invention |
Comments |
| Dates
BC: |
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| Neolithic Cultures |
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| Rice cultivation |
12000 BC |
| Beer |
9000 BC |
| Millit cultivation |
8500 BC |
| Urn, pottery |
7000 BC |
Oars for rowing
Salt, use of |
6000 BC |
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| Drum |
5500 BC |
| Coffin, rectangular wooden |
5000 BC |
| Lacquer ware |
| Cookery steamer |
| Noodles |
4000 BC |
| Silk |
3630 BC, Henan |
| Plough |
Longshan Culture
Circa .3, 500 BC |
| Plowshare |
3500 BC |
| Domestication of Ox and Buffalo |
| Dagger Axe |
| India Ink |
| Fork |
2400 BC - used
prior to the invention of chopsticks |
| South pointing chariot (not magnetic) |
Circa 2350 BC |
| Medicine |
| Astrology |
| Martial Arts (Kung Fu) |
| Metal Bell |
Before 2000
BC |
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| Ancient
China |
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| Chopsticks |
1200 BC |
| Crossbow |
Circa 600 BC |
| Manned flight (Kites) |
559 BC |
| Chemical warfare |
Circa 400 BC |
| Paper making |
Map from Fangmatan, 300BC |
| Star catalogue |
Before 300
BC |
| Compass (Independent of Toltec
Compass 1000 BC) |
220 BC |
| Negative numbers and zero |
| Acupuncture |
Chrome plating
(Of Bronze arrows)
Contour canal with locks |
Before 210
BC |
| Tofu |
Circa 150 BC |
| Seismometer |
132 BC |
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| Dates
AD |
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| Kite |
Circa 550 |
| Toilet paper |
589 |
| Woodblock printing |
650, Tang tomb,Xi'an |
| Porcelain (True
glazed) |
Circa 650 |
| 2-Gate canal lock |
984 |
| Smallpox innoculations |
Circa 1000 |
| Moveable type |
Bi Sheng, Circa 1030 |
| Banknotes |
Before 1023 |
| Gunpowder |
Before 1044 |
| Rifle (Fire
lance) |
Circa 1100 |
| Bulkhead, ships |
Before 1119 |
| Calendar (Gregorian
type) |
1281 |
| Exploding cannonballs |
Circa 1350 |
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| Modern
China |
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| Maglev (frictionless)
windpower generators |
Guangzhou,
2006 |
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Main
reference: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions |
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