China’sFourGreatInventions.docVIP

China’s Four Great Inventions Four Great Inventions the compass, gunpowder, paper and movable type printingwere ancient China’s outstanding scientific and technological contributions to world civilization. The compass The world’s first compass was made in China during the Warring States Period(475-221B.C) by balancing a piece of lodestone carved in the shape of al ladle on a smooth ,flat plate and letting it spin. When it stopped, the handle always pointed to the south. After the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D960--1127) the Chinese people connected the compass with a square plate eng