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    Chinese civilization made many important contributions to science and technology including: 1) Inventions such as the crossbow, seed drill, iron plough, porcelain, silk production, wheelbarrows, stirrups, matches, and acupuncture. 2) Advances in paper making and printing, with early scripts containing 80,000 characters printed on paper made from materials like silk rags and wooden strips. 3) Other innovations such as fans, umbrellas, iron casting, and attempts at early aviation through hot air balloons.

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    Chinese civilization made many important contributions to science and technology including: 1) Inventions such as the crossbow, seed drill, iron plough, porcelain, silk production, wheelbarrows, stirrups, matches, and acupuncture. 2) Advances in paper making and printing, with early scripts containing 80,000 characters printed on paper made from materials like silk rags and wooden strips. 3) Other innovations such as fans, umbrellas, iron casting, and attempts at early aviation through hot air balloons.

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    # Chinese Civilization

    Reporter: Corbita, Sherie Joy


    C h i n e s e c o n t r i b u ti o n s t o S c i e n c e
    a n d Te c h n o l o g y :

    • Cross Bow is a bow set • Fans made of bamboo


    horizontally on a stock. spines that stick out in the
    When the shooter releases shape of a semicircle with
    a mechanism, the crossbow silk wrapped around it.
    fires arrows or bolts forced
    by the mechanical energy of
    previously stretched
    • Paper and
    • Seed Drill were used
    Printing.Their early
    by farmers to plant
    script contained 80,000
    seeds into the soil at
    different characters.
    uniform depth.
    There were 3 different
    kinds of papers:
    > Silk rags
    > Wooden strips (cheap
    • Iron Plough. This was one • Porcelain. This is
    of the major developments made of special white
    in ancient Chinese clay which has a lot of
    agriculture. It was first kaolin in it
    developed in 4th century
    BC.
    • Silk was made from • Wheelbarrows. are
    the cocoons of basically hand driven
    silkworms. The chinese vehicles with two
    managed to keep the handles on the rear
    process for making silk side for a person to
    a secret for a hundred push ahead.
    of years.
    Other inventions:

    • Umbrella • Iron Casting • Hot air balloon • Matches

    • Stirrups for riding horses • Acupuncture


    THANK YOU

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