today I did a small survey of the discoveries and inventions, committed by the Chinese, who entered the life of Europeans often through one, two millennia after they have become ubiquitous in China. In addition to well-known four great inventions of ancient China : paper, compass, gunpowder and printing, this country attributed to a host of other discoveries.
Until XVII century, China outstripped Europe in terms of technological development. China has more advanced math and more advanced technology in general.
And now, the Chinese continue to surprise us. For example, they recently invented double-decker bus tunnel, single-use printer designed for the robot In order to care for lonely elderly, invented a new way to avoid paying fines: Chinese drivers are changing rooms on the fly, as the hero of the movie "Taxi". I think the latest achievement, we will soon see on our roads. In his last trip to China I saw trap warning that catches the signal even from cameras, which are in the machines at our cops. Good thing!
So, what comes to us from China?
China has discovered the most ancient writings found most oldest in the world of the multiplication table. Decimal number system, fundamental to all modern science, first emerged in China. with zero Chinese learned in
12 century AD., for four centuries before the Europeans. Ancient Chinese mathematicians were familiar with the number of π - in
3 century AD.
Chinese map - best oldest in the world.
unique sky map, dating from the 7 century draws our galaxy with precision, striking other nations until the age Renaissance
Planting grasses in rows, intensive weeding, seeder, iron plow, moldboard plowed to turn the soil and improved harness - it all came to us from China. There is evidence that the Chinese with the 6 century BC when planting into account compass rose. The Western world has accepted it, "novelty" only after 2200 years.
On lacquer boxes 4 century BC those times depicted a horse in harness, where the solid clip across the chest animal traces connected with the shafts. Before the advent of the traces in the West used the primitive collar that choked the horses almost to death.
The Chinese first began to use rudders, tiller and stacked mast on their ships. In fact, both America and Australia, and Antarctica, and everything else the Chinese have opened. And they did it nearly a century before the Europeans and spent a whole two years - from March 1421-th to October 1423, and to In 1428 the whole world with all the precision has already been done on the card.
In 2005, China celebrated the 600 anniversary of the voyage of the sea expedition of the famous Chinese navigator Zheng He's.
seismograph. The first instrument capable of catching vibrations earth's surface, was invented in 132 g . Chinese astronomer Zhang Khan.
Chinese first to drill deep wells and build pipelines out of bamboo. Natural gas was used in China for heating and lighting as early as 4. BC. er.
By the 1 st century BC. er. Chinese drilled wells more than a hundred meters to extract brine, and deep drilling directly for natural gas production began in the 2. Mr. er.
technology of iron smelting was well known in China for at least 4. BC. er.
Steel. The Chinese learned how to get out of cast iron steel. The technology was developed at by 2 century BC. er. and formed the basis of Bessemer process open to West in 1856 .
In the list of Chinese gifts of the world civilization made concrete. 5,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese have mastered the technology production of concrete, which they used in the construction of architectural structures.
in China found a settlement of ancient people age which has about 1 million 660 thousand years. The oldest city in the world - China. Chinese archaeologists have discovered in the vicinity of Tyanmen the central province of Hubei ruins of the city, built 5500 - 5000 years ago. China's age pyramid 5000 years.
Chinese have been drinking alcohol nine thousand years ago. Excellent information for fans say toast. Tea, pasta, ravioli were disseminated in China long before they arrived to Europe via the Silk Road.
Egg on display at the museum of ancient history in the eastern province of Shandong. According to archaeologists, it lay more than 2 thousand years in the tomb of a rich era of the Western Han.
first brush your teeth with bristles made the Chinese in 1498 for the Chinese emperor.
China - the birthplace of the toilet. The Chinese first began to produce toilet paper.
For 1700 years the Chinese fight the insect pests, using the methods of biological effects, when one kills another insect.
believed that the first matches are due to the advent of Siege of the Imperial Palace, which took place in 577 g . in the short-lived Northern Qi.
Yongjia County in east China Province Chansi archaeologists have discovered two musical plates older than three thousand years, and who probably are the oldest shock musical instruments.
In China, found the oldest in the world blunderbuss made at the end of the XIII century.
another 1000-odd years ago the Chinese already knew about the technology of grafting plants.
Archaeologists discovered during excavations in China remains a bra with soft inserts that at least a thousand years.
Northwestern China found a pot, pressure cooker, made 2800 years ago
Peter Liu (Peter Lu) and his colleagues at the University of Harvard (Harvard University) found that in China, people used the diamond abrasive as a tool during the Neolithic, that is - a few thousand years earlier than was accepted to consider.
shipping channels. The world's first outline (using topography) Magic channel length 32 km , was built in China 3. BC. er.
Wheelbarrow, apparently, appeared in Southwest China 1. BC. er.
Lucky has been known in China at least as early as 13. BC. er. Materials for nail was invented in China.
Mechanical watches. Palm in the invention of mechanical clock belongs to China. The first mechanical hours did and Shin (683-727), a Buddhist monk and mathematician.
According to Professor Lin Honlin from the University of Lanzhou, the Chinese are playing golf for a thousand years ago. FIFA president Joseph Blatter acknowledged that China is the birthplace of football. He agreed with the data that provided Chinese officials football federation, reports Xinhua. These data suggest that football was invented 2300 years in Linji, in Shandong Province.
invented movable type does not Gutenberg, the circulatory system is not William Harvey, and not Isaac Newton discovered the first law of mechanics. Prior to all this first hit upon the Chinese. By loom, invented in Europe Cartwright in 1785, even during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Chinese masters produced fabrics with complicated patterns and air ornament titled "yuntszin" - "cloud brocade".
One of the earliest images of Christ's birth found in China.
Porcelain, spyglass , hanging and arched bridges, the gimbals, chain pump, crossbow, propeller, rocket, locks, ships with wheel motors on human-powered - not a complete list of discoveries made by Chinese scientists. Middle Kingdom - the birthplace of iron ax, a thimble, metal and paper money, stirrups, Trigger trigger crossbow, a unified state exam ...
And finally. "Brainwashing" also invented in China. "According to the decree Hongwu, people were forbidden to sing and dance without any reason on the streets of Chinese cities. He sought to have subjects sang and danced, but when it was pleased the emperor. Violators of the same decree poured water into his nose for three days - it's called "brainwashing" ("Sinai"). Chu Yuan-chang, he lived 1328-1398.
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