Metallurgy

Historians of science have overlooked China in their research. Thus, China's contribution to science and technology, evidenced in a number of technical solutions, has gone unnoticed. Ancient China was a world scientific and technological center before the 16th century. In China, iron and steel metallurgy, paper, the mechanical watch, the transmission belt, the conversion of rotary motion into rectilinear motion, the movable type printing press, gunpowder, the stern rudder, watertight compartments, the armored hull of ships, propeller power, the windmill, the seismograph, gears, etc... the list could be endless. movable type printing press Successes of Technology and Science in Ancient China Four Great Chinese Inventions Metallurgy and Casting of Iron Utensils Copper Production and Bronze Ware Casting Exploration and Use of Petroleum Coal Discovery and Mining Oenological Industry Sericulture Astral Catalogs and Astronomical Atlases Solar and Lunar Eclipse Observation Meridian Measurement Zhang Heng and His Seismograph Guo Shoujing and the "Shoushi Li" Calendar Decimal and Binary Systems Zu Chongzhi and the Value of π(Pi) Equal Temperament of 12 Notes Ingenious Inventions of Ancient China There are even records of solar eclipses inscribed on bones or turtle shells from over 3,300 years ago. In Kao Gong Ji (Archives of Industrial Techniques…