Inventions

The Chinese invented:

Suspension bridges
Segmented arch - 610AD, still in use
Playing cards
Fishing reels
Whiskey
Movable type
Cast iron
Iron plow
Steel
Umbrellas
Seismograph
Phosphorescent paint
Spinning wheel
Sliding calipers
Porcelain
Zoetrope
Stink bomb
Poison gas
Decimal point
Rudders
Paper money
Fireworks
Lacquer
Wallpaper
Toilet paper
Wheelbarrows
Mechanical clock - late Tang Dynasty (then forgot about it and reintroduced to China by Europe)
Stirrups - The Mongols introduced stirrups to Europe.
Paper - it was not manufactured until the 12th Century in Europe, about 1200 years after it’s invention in China
Parachute - (tested in 1192)
Chain pump - 1st Century A.D.
Crossbow - 4th Century B.C.
Kite - (2000 years before it was flown in Europe)
Printing process - 11th Century
1st book – the Buddhist text ‘The Diamond Sutra’ in the year 868
Steam engine - in AD600 (Datong Locomotive Works is the last factory in the world that still manufactures steam locomotives)
‘Tea’, the English word is Xiamen-dialect Chinese
Discovered that snowflakes have six sides
Most pizza hut restaurant mushrooms are from China