Here is a list of some of the major inventions and / or discoveries made in ancient China:
1) weaving of silk, tea and ink in 2,500 BC, 2) Chinese alphabet 1,500 BC, 3) calibrator "invented" some 1,700 years later in Europe; 4) 700 BC invention of gunpowder and consequently, of the artifacts as fireworks, weapons and rockets, 5) the compass; 6) Detector lies. The doctor Hua To, who was born in 125 a.C. was the forerunner of the method of analysis by the wrists and that lead to an interesting way of research, which was examined in trials if a person is lying or not on a legal issue, something that was inserted in the modern means of police investigation with the detector, lie (is to analyse the change of heart to decide if a lie), 7) the bicycle; 8) astronomical measuring instruments; 9) lunar and solar calendar of simultaneous use, 10) paper, invented by T''sai Lun A. 100. C., it produced the paper aglutinando fishing nets and rags, later, other material coming then tried to make use of vegetable fibres. The specimens that came up today prove that the paper made by former Chinese was of high quality, which compares with the normal paper produced today, the Mayas and curiously Astecas were already using a papyrus similar to that produced in Egypt when the arrival the Spaniards, 11) Han dynasty, the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng was found a measuring instrument cronométrica, 12) the glasses; 13) the pen, 14) Tang dynasty, Xuan Zong reign of the first clock in the world with a complex system gears forming a group with about 4 meters, powered by water that was inserted in 60 seconds buckets that correspond to and did move the first gear, which gradually moved that corresponded to the second minute and it finally moved to third which corresponded to hours, his figure was not seen by other than the emperor himself who wanted to know the hour of the day, but was designed by Jesuit priest Leoni as the Nani who came to China in 1904 as one of many Jesuit missionaries who brought the idea to Europe almost one thousand years after its invention, 15) the periscope, 16) balance of weight; 17) invention of ábaco (method of computing mathematics) in 190 AD, 18) Chinese astronomers reveal a supernova - 386 AD, 19) paper currency ( 1,000 AD), 20) Bi Sheng invented the printing in the sixth century. VIII that would lead to the method used to date for the publication of newspapers in 1,045, 21) Quin Jiusao (1202-1261) in 1245 registered for the first time a rain index with a pluviômetro, which were used only for the first time in the West in 1639 ; 22) Ti Liu Xiang (1648-1695) at the beginning of the Qing dynasty, protected the population in Gansu with the use of cannons to prevent rain, hail;
23) Liu Xiang Ti also recorded for the first time the magnetic properties of the magnet;
24) The bar;
25) Leme;
26) Use of stone coal, oil and gas as fuel in the century. A.C. IV;
27) The balloon;
28) Stop parachutes;
29) Musical instruments such as Bell and the drum;
30) alcohol;
31) phosphorus;
32) game of chess;
33) there are 3,000 years the Chinese already knew astronomically the eclipses of the sun and the moon;
34) sismógrafo for identification and registration of tremors of land; Even as an important part of Chinese discoveries and their achievements, an unknown inventor Chinese for thousands of years ago, had the task of creating a new invention by the requirement of their emperor. The emperor wanted to know the exact hour of the day and therefore determined the creation of an invention in this regard. Through a precise mathematical calculation, the inventor has created a system of gears to move water through a stream which had been controlled to address the mechanism. It consisted of a complex with about four meters in height and the right half of all, there was the penetration of water that each successive filling buckets with the sixty that were positioned to move the mechanism. Each bucket was filled every second and weight of the water was moving the set and one of pointers, just as is the domestic box of a mechanical clock. The invention was accessed by Marco Polo in its passage by China at the invitation of the emperor. Marco Polo drew a role in the invention and this was taken to Europe that later would the clock as we know, improved aijnda by Alberto Santos Dumont with the creation of the wristwatch.