In the U.S. we celebrate July 4th, our Independence Day, with fireworks and all manner of noise making and bright flashing ...

Papermaking is widely known as one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient Chinese civilization along with printing, gunpowder, and the compass. Among various types of papers, Xuan paper, also known ...

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 is emerging as the great technological power of these years. In 2025, it presented the LICOM K++ system, with which ultra-high-resolution ocean simulations can be carried out ...

While inventions and technological discoveries such as gunpowder, paper, printing, the magnetic compass and efficient animal harness, which changed the course of civilization, were made in China ...

Some ancient cultures had learned to use magnetic rocks, like the Olmec in Mexico in 1000 BC, but the Chinese were the first to magnetize iron using lodestone. The first instance of the compass ...

The four great inventions of China are considered to be the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. Ask a layperson or foodie, however, and their answer might be congee, rice noodles, wheat ...

A 2017 book, "The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History," by Tonio Andrade, makes the case that the Chinese military knew exactly what to do with the ...

The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China — Saturday, April 6, 2-3 p.m. Learn how papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass, all from Ancient China, have shaped the modern world. Join Joe ...

It’s not that China can’t innovate; it produced the “four great inventions” — gunpowder, paper, printing and the compass — hundreds of years before the West.