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CHINESE INVENTS
Gunpowder was invented by alchemists of ancient China in the IX century. In principle it was obtained by mixing sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter (potassium nitrate). The coal was obtained from the willows, although plants such as the vine, hazelnut, laurel and elderberry, among others, were also used.
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CHINESSE SILK INVENTION
silk fabric was invented in ancient china and played an important role in their culture and economy for thousand of year Legend has it that the process for making silk cloth was first invented by the wife of the yellow emperor, leuzu aroud the year 2696 BC
PORCELAIN
Porcelain was first made in China—in a primitive form rduring the Tang dynasty (618–907) and in the form best known in the West during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). This true, or hard-paste, porcelain was made from petuntse, or china stone (a feldspathic rock), ground to powder and mixed with kaolin (white china clay)
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INVENTION OF THE COMPASS
the compatury by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.ss was invented more than 2,000 years ago. The first compasses were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized stone of iron, in Han dynasty China (202 BC – 220 AD). ... This was replaced in the early 20th cen
INVENTION OF THE PAPER AND PRINTING
the first paper was made from rags, but later plant materials were used, such as bark, hemp, and bamboo. Civil-service officials needed lots of paper to do their work, and so paper gradually became mass-produced in government factories. ... The first Chinese books were made from strips of bamboo, tied together in a bundle.
According to the legend of the umbrella, a woman called Lu Mei invented the umbrella, because she challenged his brother to device something that protect they of the rain.
In the XI century B.C. umbrellas was made of wood, bamboo and paper. They used umbrellas as a strength for any each weather changing.
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