Who are the inventors of the four great Chinese inventions

The inventors of China's four great inventions are: Cai Lun, Luan Da, Sun Simiao and Bi Sheng.

The four great inventions of ancient China: papermaking, compass, gunpowder, and movable type printing.

Paper-making: Cai Lun.

Compass: Luan Da (prototype), the originator of the compass appeared around the period of the Warring States, the specific person is unknown.

Gunpowder: Sun Simiao.

Movable type printing: Bi Sheng was the originator of printing.

Expanded Information

China's Four Great Inventions' Impact on the World:

China's Four Great Inventions were introduced to the West one after another before the emergence of modern civilization in Europe, and they had a certain impact on the development of Western science and technology. The adoption of gunpowder and firearms destroyed the ideological yoke of medieval Catholicism in Europe.

The compass reached European navigators, making possible the discovery of the Americas and circumnavigation of the globe, and laying the foundations for world trade and the development of workshop crafts in the West.

And Joseph Lee's praise and emphasis on these four great inventions led to a claim that gained much acceptance in China and was written into textbooks.

Engels wrote in "Artillery," published in 1857, "In China, also at a very early period, smouldering gunpowder was made from saltpeter mixed with other priming agents, and it was used militarily and in grand ceremonies."

Gunpowder was first documented in alchemy books of the Late Tang Dynasty in the 9th century A.D.

The first records of gunpowder are from the late Tang dynasty, in the 9th century A.D.

The first records of gunpowder are from the late Tang dynasty.

904 A.D., Yang Xingmi army siege of Yuzhang (present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi Province), the general Zheng Fan ordered the Ministry of "hair machine flying fire, burning Longshamen, rate of strong men burst into the city of the first fire, scorched by the body," this is the earliest use of gunpowder in the military record, the earliest gunpowder weapons appeared in the Five Dynasties period of Dunhuang murals.

Tenth century, the Fifth Dynasty period of Dunhuang (then belongs to the return of the army of righteousness) murals, the earliest known depictions of muskets and grenades. The world's earliest metal cannon was unearthed in Heilongjiang, China, dating from 1288, and is now in the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: The Four Great Inventions