Inventions

At 205 B.C. Emperor Qin invented the compass. You probably think it was all fancy. But it wasn't. By balancing a piece of loadstone carved in the shape of a ladle on a round, bronze plate they made the compass. But the first person to use the compass was Zheng.

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This is a magnet compass.

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