Chinese Contribution to Science & Technology

What is this?

• Soup Spoon and server

• Sundial

• Compass

• Bird feeder

The Chinese invention used to make weapons and fireworks.

• Gasoline
• Steel
• Gunpowder
• Coal

This helped sailors navigate and helped to harmonise people's lives.

• Rocket

• Compass

• Porcelain

• Silk Road

Gunpowder led to

• fireworks
• porcelain
• rockets
• Both fireworks and rockets

Paper led to

• silk
•  money
• books
• both books and money

The ancient Chinese people could be described as

• outgoing

• caring

• inventive

• unkind

The invention of paper in Ancient China was used for..

• Keeping records

• Heating homes

• Curing sickness

Pots heated at high temperature in furnace to produce a strong and beautiful pot. This is called...

• paper making

• block making

• making ceramics

Who was Joseph Needham?

• He was an inventor in Ancient China

• He was a scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology.

• A conservationist

It was used to repeat printing of words, individual letters and seals using wooden blocks.

• Block printing (like a stamp)

• Gunpowder

• Making ceramics