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• 'Two-bombs and One-star...
• Abacus
• Acient Chinese Fashion
• Agricultural production in Hani...
• Alchemy
• An Ingenious Openwork Carving -...
• Ancient Clepsydras
• Animal-Drawn Seed Plough
• Armillary Sphere by Su Song
• Astronomical Navigation Technology
• Bamboo and Wooden Slips
• BaZi: Analyzing your destiny...
• Boat with Black Awning...
• Books on Metallurgy
• Bridge Expert Mao Yisheng
• CAN YOU SOLVE THEM? Chinese...
• Celebrated silk's story of...
• Celestial Globe
• Characteristics of Ancient...
• Chemical Engineering Expert:...
• Chemist Lu JiaXi
• Chime Bells
• Chinese Astronomers
• Chinese astronomy map from...
• Chinese Coins
• Chinese Father of Missile --...
• Chinese Horoscope Culture
• Chinese Jewelry Making Techniques
• Chinese Modern Mathematician --...
• Chinese Modern Physicist --...
• Chinese Numerals
• Chinese Paper Money and the...
• Chinese Zodiac / Constellations
• Chongzhen Lishu (Chongzhen...
• Clone Cow Amy's Father-- Yang...
• Compass
• Computation Mathematician: Zhou...
• Cultural heritage of...
• Dagger-axe
• Dougong
• Dragon-Bone Waterwheel
• Drawloom
• Earliest Astronomical Site:...
• Expert on Anatomy and...
• Expert on Water Conservancy and...
• Famous Architect -- Wu Liangyong
• Famous Boats in Ancient China
• Famous Insect Bionomist -- Ma...
• Famous Mathematician Wu Wenjun
• Farming and Sericulture
• Father of Hybrid Rice -- Yuan...
• Father of Laser Photo...
• Fire lance
• Fireworks
• First Chinese Man in Space -...
• Fish Basin
• Fork
• Founder of Experimental...
• Founder of Geological Mechanics...
• Founder of Solid Strategic...
• Founding Father of China's...
• Gnomon (Gui Biao)
• Gourd Bomb, a kind of gunpowder...
• Great Thinkers
• Gunpowder
• Gunpowder Trade - Silk Road to...
• Guo Pu
• Guo Shoujing
• Haidao suanjing (Sea Island...
• Handicraft Industry and...
• Handmade Paper
• Herbal for Relief of Famines
• Historical Geographer: Hou Renzhi
• History and Technique of Yun...
• Home of Ceramics
• Hou Ji
• How Did Ancient People Forecast...
• How Did the Ancient Chinese...
• Hua Luogeng
• Hua Luogeng, An Outstanding...
• Huang Li, the old almanac
• Huizhou-Style Print
• Hybrid Rice
• Illustrated Catalogue of...
• Introduction: The Dianshizhai...
• Jade Burial Suit
• Jia Sixie, author of China's...
• Jigu suanjing (Continuation of...
• Jinling (today's Nanjing)-style...
• Kan Yu
• Kao Gong Ji (The Records of...
• Karez Well
• Kongming's Light (Hot-Air Ballon)
• Land mine
• Lanzhou Waterwheels
• Leaf Engraving
• Lei Zu
• Li Bing
• Looking up into the Sky
• Lu Guimeng, agronomist and poet
• Match
• Mathematician: Gu Chaohao
• Mathematician: Lu Qikeng
• Medical Doctor and Educator: Wu...
• Medicine
• Meteorologist, Geophysicist and...
• Mileage-Recording Drum Cart
• Minzhong Haicuoshu
• Mould for Casting Iron
• Natural Gas as Fuel
• Nest Cart
• Neurophysiologist: Zhang Xiangtong
• Nine Chapters on Mathematical...
• Nuclear Energy Expert --Wang...
• Nuclear Physical Scientist --...
• Nuclear Physicist: Yu Min
• Nuclear Weapon Expert: Cheng...
• Nüshu, Special Writing Only...
• Observation of Solar and Lunar...
• Open-spandrel segmental arch...
• Paper
• PHOTOES: The Grand Canal
• PHOTOES: The Great Wall
• Physical Metallurgist: Wu Ziliang
• Physicist: Peng Huanwu
• Picture of the Ultimate and the...
• Pioneer of Chinese Meteorology...
• Pioneer of Chinese...
• Playing Cards
• Plowshare, triangular-shaped
• Porcelain Making
• Pottery and Porcelain
• Pottery Jar with Sun Patterns
• Pottery Zun in Dawenkou,Shandong
• Print technique at peril...
• Printing
• Qimin Yaoshu
• Raised-relief Map
• Red lanterns hung up all over...
• Renowned Mathematicians of...
• Revisiting the Ancient Chinese...
• Rice-fish-duck Agricultural...
• Rosewood Star Chart and Solar...
• Scaphe Sundial
• Scientist of Metal Physics and...
• Sedan Chairs
• Shehuo
• Shen Kuo, an all-round scholar
• Showcase seals reputation of...
• Shushu jiyi (Notes on...
• Silver Censing Balls
• Solar Salt Making Technique
• Solid-state Physicist: Huang Kun
• South-Pointing Chariot
• Star Catalogue
• Star Map on the Cover of a...
• Steelyard (杆秤 Gancheng)
• Sundials (Rigui)
• Sunzi suanjing (Sun Zi's...
• Suspension Bridge Using Iron...
• Suzhou Embroidery—A Legend...
• Suzhou Star Chart
• T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu: Chinese...
• Technical Optics Pioneer: Wang...
• Textile
• The Book Grasses and Trees in...
• The Chinese products on the...
• The Decimal System
• The Earliest “Refrigerator”...
• The earliest aviation exploration
• The Earliest Book on Horse...
• The Earliest Seismoscope
• The earliest use of turtle shells
• The Emergence of Money and...
• The First Botanical Dictionary...
• The First Chinese- Nobel- Prize...
• The first distance-recording...
• The Forging Techniques of Zhang...
• The Founder of Chemical...
• The Gnomon
• The Goldbeating Techniques of...
• The Grand Canal
• The Great Chinese Mariner Zheng He
• The Great Wall
• The History of Fireworks
• The History of Gunpowder
• The History of Jade Ritual Object
• The Indigenous Alkali Making...
• The Luminous Cup(夜光杯...
• The Nine Chapters on the...
• The Oldest Contour Canal in the...
• The Pyrotechnics of Liuyang
• The secrets of sailing
• The Sword Forging Techniques of...
• The Ten Mathematical Classics
• The Theoretical Foundation of...
• The Water-Driven Astronomical...
• The Watertight Bulkhead...
• The World's No.1 in China
• The Zhengguo Canal
• Theoretical Physicist: Zhou...
• Tianzhu tools are back on the...
• Toilet Paper
• Top 10 greatest inventions of...
• Travelogue: Xuan Paper Making
• Trip hammer
• Trotting Horse Lamp
• Umbrella
• Use of Salt
• Wang Zhen Nong Shu (Wang Zhen's...
• Wannian Traditional Rice...
• Water Banks and Other...
• Wheelbarrow
• Wind Coat and Raincoat in...
• Wind Observation
• Wind-and-Rain Bridge Builder...
• Wine and Liquor
• Winnowing Fan
• Wondrous wooden wares
• Wooden Bird
• Workmanship of Suileng Black...
• Workmanship of Yongchun...
• Wucao suanjing (Mathematical...
• Wujing suanshu (Arithmetic...
• Xiahou Yang
• Xiahou Yang suanjing (Xiahou...
• Ximen Bao, founder of China's...
• Xu Xiake and his famous...
• Zhan Tianyou
• Zhang Qiujian suanjing (Zhang...
• Zhang Sui (seng Yixing)
• Zhoubi suanjing (Zhou Shadow...
• Zhui shu (Method of Interpolation)
• Zoetrope
• Zu Chongzhi, who created the...
• 祖冲之 Zu Chongzhi (AD...
• 缀术 The Method of...
• 詹天佑 Zhan Tianyou...

The Four Great Inventions

Gunpowder



Compass



Paper



Printing



Handmade Paper

Scientific Masterpieces in Ancient China

Other Important Inventions

Haidao suanjing (Sea Island Mathematical Manual)
Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures
Qimin Yaoshu
T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century
Wang Zhen Nong Shu (Wang Zhen's Treatise on Agriculture)
Kao Gong Ji (The Records of Examination of Craftsman)
The First Botanical Dictionary in the World - Quan Fang Bei Zu
The Earliest Book on Horse Science in China - Xiang Ma Jing
more
Gourd Bomb, a kind of gunpowder weapon
Revisiting the Ancient Chinese Seismograph
Sundials (Rigui)
The Oldest Contour Canal in the World: Lingqu Canal
Textile
Sedan Chairs
The Earliest Seismoscope
Hybrid Rice
more

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