What important invention did the chinese make...?
Around 500 BC, however, metalworkers in the southern state of Wu developed an iron smelting technology that would not be practiced in Europe until late medieval times. In Wu, iron smelters achieved a temperature of 1130°C, hot enough to be considered a blast furnace. At this temperature, iron combines with 4.3% carbon and melts. As a liquid, iron can be cast into molds, a method far less laborious than individually forging each piece of iron from a bloom. Cast iron is rather brittle and unsuitable for striking implements. It can, however, be decarburized to steel or wrought iron by heating it in air for several days. In China, these ironworking methods spread northward, and by 300 BC, iron was the material of choice throughout China for most tools and weapons.
Who invented ore smelting?
I don't who invented ore smelting. I've searched around and found a couple of answers, but I don't know which one is right. :/ I've read that a guy in America and a guy if France did in the 1800s. (Which I find rediculous because people had iron weaponry, armor, and pots WAYYYYY before the 1800s which is pretty obvious) I've read that the Incas did during ancient times. I've also read that the Chinese did because archaeologist found iron pots that were supposedly made sometime in BC through different dynasties. I've also read that the Hittites invented it (which is China and India today... I think...), and that's why they were the leaders in weapon and armor during that time period. I'm a little confused and would appreciate a solid answer on this with links. (Pictures would be nice too) Thanks in advance! ^.^
China was smelting iron in the 9th century; why didn't it progress technologically beyond this as far or as fast as Britain did centuries later?
During the Song Dynasty their method was very good and advanced. They had heavy industry in their domain.The cities in that time were among the largest in the world owing to new advancements in industry as well as an agricultural revolution. They had MILLIONS of residents in each city.Visiting a major city in Song Dynasty (900 ACE) would have been more similar to our concept of Victorian era London 1,000 years later. Music, Art, Science, Functional Judicial system that actually represents the people. (the first forensic investigators can be found in the Song dynasty.)As to why it did not advance to the point of Britain’s Industrial revolution? Many factors I would think. But one glaring one to me is Britain is a small Island in comparison to China in the Song Dynasty. But Britain had a far reach and required ships and tools to use in different environments from Australia, India, China, And America. Many colonies and had varying needs from the innovative material. Equate it to the Wheel…the wheel was not used on a chariot right away, for hundreds or even thousands of years. It was used in a different capacity in the form of a pottery tool. Someone somewhere saw the wheel but needed it to do something different and BAM! it was the beginning of mechanical transportation ancestor of our modern car.That was likely the case with Iron. China was using it for centuries, perfecting it… But they just used it differently and had their own specialized needs.Don’t fall into the thought that Britain was more advanced…anyone dropped into the Song dynasty would be astounded at the similarities to what we consider modern life.Edit to add after a bunch of comments on answer:Some would argue that the Mongols halted progress, but Iron smelting was a process known for 800 years in ancient China. Why in 800 years did they not progress to the point of Britain’s progress? (CUT out why the Dynasty ended. That is not the answer. They had 800 years to advance to the point of steam engine etc.…. Why didn’t they in that time period?)Different needs, different wants, Political intervention ect. Many factors.This comment By Alex Wang was DEAD ON. https://www.quora.com/China-was-...
Chinese civilisation?
plzz help me find out d following about chinese civilisation.. 1.where did it flourish? 2.which period in history did it flourish 3.how advanced was that civilisation? 4.what was the speciality of that civilisation? plzz help.. me 10points..!! best answer...
How did citizens in Han China interact with their environment?
In agriculture, water conservation and irrigation projects were built and greatly expanded production. Cattle, and iron farm tools were used at large to plough the land, and planting skills were also improved greatly so that one hectare of field could be seeded in a day. In industry, productivity was improved greatly in both metallurgy and the textile industry. Looms were used taking the place of manual labor in weaving. Iron-smelting was carried on a large scale and steel was made using coal as fuel. Hydraulics were developed using water power to drive a celestial sphere. The stability of the country and rapid development of the arts with the invention of paper and porcelain and industry provided commerce a favorable environment to develop.
Was the transfer of iron smelting technology from China to Europe the cause of the Industrial Revolution?
No.Iron smelting, which is to say the extraction of iron from ore, was developed in the Near East about 4500 years ago. For quite some time, though, this produced only relatively soft wrought iron. The problem for smiths was that they could build furnaces capable of temperatures which could chemically separate iron from oxide compounds, producing metallic iron, but they couldn’t generate temperatures high enough to melt the iron, rendering it liquid, which happens at a higher temperature than smelting (that’s not the case for all metals; copper ores smelt at higher temperatures than the melting point of copper, so if you can smelt copper, you can melt and pour it). This means that early iron had to be smelted, then the softened but still not liquid bloom of iron was hammered to pound out slag inclusions in it. Inevitably, impurities remained, creating weak spots in the iron, and wrought iron is relatively soft anyway. Moreover, since they couldn’t melt large masses of iron together, large iron items had to be welded or riveted together, creating more weak spots.China was the first region to invent processes capable of actually melting iron around 2000 years ago. The Chinese method appears to have involved furnaces with a very long draft. This is different from other processes of melting iron found through Asia during the Middle Ages with crucible techniques: iron ore was finely ground and mixed with charcoal in a container which was then sealed and heated. This reached high enough temperatures that the carbon infiltrated the iron and reduced the melting temperature a bit, producing small quantities of homogeneous steel. And these are both different from the technique Europeans eventually created around the Renaissance: using forced-air furnaces driven by water power.So, then, since the European technique is demonstrably different from the Chinese one, it would appear that it’s an independent invention, not a product of technology transfer.
What were some of the most clever inventions/ideas that were created over 1000 years ago?
I answered a similar question about that were some ancient invention that we use today , so rather than repeating that I post I decided to Show pictures and links for this one.Stitched clothing and dyes , the indigo blue dyed clothing fragment to the right is 6,000 years old.Oldest indigo-dyed fabric found2. Pants, These 3,000 year pants were uncover in an ancient tomb in China.3000 year old trousers discovered in Chinese grave oldest ever found3. Clockwork Mechanisms, this device believed to be used as an ancient computer to calculate astronomical events is 2,000 years old.Reconstructed:Decoding The Antikythera Mechanism4. Compass , invented in China about 2,000 years ago here’s an ancient example:Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Compass5. Gunpowder, for better or worse gunpowder has shaped warfare and our world since it was invented in China 1,200 years ago.History of Gunpowder: Gunpowder in ancient China6. Medical Suturing, the ancient Egyptians described medical sutures 5,000 years ago.The history of the suture | Live Better7. The Noria this device invented in ancient Egypt used a flowing river to turn a water wheel whose buckets would dump water into the a trough or aqueduct at a higher elevation.Noria | waterwheel