The Chinese first used gunpowder to make explosives used by the military in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (五代十国, Wǔdài Shíguó). The Chinese invented cannons made of cast iron, cast iron ...

A WRITER in the North China Herald of Shanghai devotes a learned article to detailing and discussing the facts regarding the claim of the Chinese to have invented the mariner's compass. They did ...

Chinese innovation may be growing dramatically, but in number of patents US and European inventors are still far ahead.

REYKJAVIK, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Wen Roujia became the first Chinese winner of the Young Inventors' Prize, awarded by the European Patent Office (EPO) here Wednesday. Wen and her collaborator ...

Freed at least to experiment in the nation`s new economic revolution, Chinese inventors are coming up with items that echo the no-hype-barred claims of long-bygone days in the American West. Hair-g… ...

Chinese innovators showed off tech progress at the recent 10th International Exhibition of Inventions in Foshan, Guangdong province, with the third World Invention and Innovation Forum taking ...

A common misperception of Chinese historical society is that it lacked scientific and technological ability—and that modern China has 'emerged' from a traditional shell. Somehow, they stumbled upon ...

NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese inventors have made a splash at an international inventors' trade fair which wrapped up in Nuremberg on Monday, with participants from China bringing ...

Inventors and firms, the vast majority of them Chinese, filed 526,000 applications to patent offices in the country in 2011, a quarter of the global total, said the U.N.'s World Intellectual ...

Bill Hayton on the Invention of the Chinese Nation “Particular memories of the past have been cultivated and popularized in China to justify the claims and actions of the current leadership.” ...