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List of Chinese inventions

A bronze Chinese crossbow trigger mechanism with a butt plate (the wooden components have since eroded and disappeared), inlaid with silver, from either the late Warring States period (403–256 BC) or the early Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220)China has been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions.

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