Sunday, April 15, 2018

The Needham Question







Paper Making 105 A.C.
Movable Type Printing 960-1279 AD.
Gunpowder 1000 A.D.
Compass 1100 A.D.
Alcohol 2000 BC-1600 BC.
Mechanical Clock 725 A.D.
Tea Production 2,737 BC.

Silk 6,000 years ago.

From Acupuncture to the Zeotrope, the Chinese seem to have invented just about everything! So why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Europe not China?



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