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 not ...

While papermaking and printing remain but are merged into a single one, compass and gunpowder are replaced by bronze, silk and porcelain Cun Caoxin (xhby.net): The status and significance of the ...

China has been the source of some of the world’s most significant inventions, including the Four Great Inventions of ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and ...

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).