They developed several things including the compass also calendar that assisted in navigation, suspension bridge, and

mathematics China was well protected by natural barriers consisting of the Himalaya Mountains, Taklimakan Desert, and Pacific Ocean

This is another important Chinese invention, the compass. Its a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore. This invention has been extremely useful to the scientific field and since then has been altered and advanced many times.

Ancient Chinese earth quake detector, one of the best and most unknown inventions of the Chinese, worked by a pendulum that push a ball out in the way of the earthquake.