chinese inventions
Chinese Inventions
Apart from the compass, tea, silk, and paper, there are many other countless Chinese inventions that has changed the face of world. Read the Buzzle article for a detailed list.
- Acupuncture
- Animal zodiac
- Archeology
- Anti-malarial properties of artemisia
- Armillary sphere, hydraulic-powered
- Automatic opening doors
- Automation
- Banknote
- Beer (high-alcohol)
- Bellows, hydraulic-powered
- Belt drive
- Blast furnace
- Bomb, cast iron
- Borehole drilling
- Bristle toothbrush
- Bulkhead partition
- Chinese calendar (365.2425 days)
- Cast iron
- Caledon
- Chain drive
- Chemical warfare
- Chopsticks
- Chromium (use)
- Chuiwan (Chinese golf)
- Civil service exams
- Co-fusion steel process
- Coke (fuel)
- Contour canal
- Crank handle
- Crossbow, handheld
- Cuju (football)
- Cupola furnace
- Deficiency diseases correction
- Diabetes (recognition and treatment)
- Dominoes (Chinese)
- Duogong (building bracket)
- Drawloom (fabric)
- Endocrinology (isolation of sex and pituitary hormones from urine)
- Escapement (used in clockwork)
- Exploding cannonballs
- Field mill (carriage)
- Finery forge
- Fire lance
- Fireworks
- Fishing reel
- Flamethrower
- Flare, military signal
- Forensic entomology
- Free reed aerophone
- Gas cylinder
- Gimbal (Cardan suspension)
- Go (board game)
- Guqin (zither instrument)
- Hand cannon
- Horse collar
- Horse harness
- Hybrid rice
- India ink
- Inoculation (smallpox treatment)
- Iron plow
- Jacob's staff
- Jade burial suit
- Junk (ship)
- Kite
- Land mine
- Leeboard
- Liubo (board game)
- Marine salvage operations
- Makyoh (magic mirrors)
- Magnetic levitation
- Mahjong (gambling game)
- Man-lifting kite
- Match, non-friction
- Mechanical theater
- Modular system of architecture
- Multiple-tube seed drill
- Multistage rocket
- Natural gas (fuel)
- Naval mine
- Negative and non-negative numbers
- Pinhole camera
- Playing cards
- Porcelain
- Pound lock
- Puppet theater, waterwheel-powdered
- Raised-relief map
- Restaurant menu
- Row planting
- Rocket bombs, aerodynamic wings and explosive payloads
- Rotary fan (manual and water-powered)
- Rudder
- Seismometer
- South pointing chariot
- Steel making (from cast iron)
- Stirrup
- Suspension bridge
- Tea
- Thyroid hormones (goiter treatment)
- Tofu
- Toilet paper
- Toothbrush
- Traction trebuchet catapult
- Trip hammer
- Tuned bells
- Wheelbarrow
- Wine server
- Winnowing fan
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess board game)
- Zeotrope (cinemetograph)
- Zhaozhou bridge