Top 7 Chinese Inventions

Mechanical clocks

Yi Xing, who was a mathematician and a monk among other things, is credited as the inventor of the original principle behind the mechanical clocks that we all utilize today. However rudimentary his water-dripping system may seem, the improvements made later on follow the same basic principles as the original device. A more complex mode would be invented 200 years later by Su Song.

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