and Invention. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1986). Information given here is from Temple's book. This activity is an informative way to introduce Chinese history and technology. If the teacher ...

The term "four new inventions" harks back to the "four great inventions" of ancient China - papermaking, gunpowder, printing and the compass. China has been putting strong emphasis on ...

In 1999, New York Times journalist Nicholas D. Kristof reported a surprising encounter on a tiny African island called Pate, just off the coast of Kenya. Here, in a village of stone huts set ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Cleavers are common in Chinese kitchens ... all set to a song about a legendary ancient hero and his green dragon crescent blade. Unlike Geng’s first invention, an automatic pancake press ...