Throughout history, many inventions, and even tech items have been created accidentally, from champagne to penicillin. One such invention was gunpowder, which owes its origins not to destruction ...

Top 10 greatest inventions of ancient China By Lin Liyao 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail China.org.cn, March 4, 2011 ... Gunpowder, known since the late 19th century as black powder, ...

Some of Needham's work has been condensed in a well-illustrated and informative book by Robert Temple (The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. Simon and Schuster, New ...

Gunpowder was created by accident when ancient Chinese chemists were trying to develop a potion that would allow humans to live forever. Instead, they created this explosive mixture.

The 85 items of important scientific and technological inventions of ancient China were recently announced by the Institute for the History of Natural Science, ... the compass and gunpowder, ...

China's Age of Invention The Rainbow Bridge built in the NOVA program "China Bridge" is just one of many important inventions that appeared during China's impressive Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280).

The ancient Chinese didn’t just invent gunpowder — they created the picnic Taiwanese entrepreneur Pierre Chen on living with art, an elusive Rothko — and the C-word Why Hong Kong has become ...

Throughout history, many inventions, and even tech items have been created accidentally, from champagne to penicillin. One such invention was gunpowder, which owes its origins not to destruction ...

China's long history has seen many extremely important inventions emerge. Besides the four most famous inventions - papermaking, moveable-type printing, gunpowder and the compass, how many other ...