China launched twin Beidou-3 satellites successfully at 02：07 on Nov 19. [Photo provided by Liang Keyan to China Daily] XICHANG -- When the Chinese invented the compass, humanity steered into ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, ch ...

China was drinking tea as early as 2,000 BCE, and (of course) invented the tea pot to do so. The now famous Chinese tea culture was fully developed by 202 BCE and was commonly used as a drink and ...

"The Chinese invented the bulkhead, the rudder, the compass, all these things," he said. Basically, it's a wooden piece of art. And a big, heavy, wooden piece of art. - Monte Gisborne ...

The Chinese have already leapfrogged into the wireless age, and who knows about tomorrow? It would be foolhardy to underestimate the folks who invented the compass, paper, gunpowder and printing.

China invented the compass. Yet in a curious irony, the direction of the world’s second-largest economy has become more or less unreadable. The country’s GDP increased by 6.9 percent in the ...

When the Chinese invented the compass, humanity steered into uncharted waters. Now China is navigating the world in the new era of global exchange with a new option -- its fledging BeiDou ...