Inventions Impact Daily Life

In the Song dynasty, there were many inventions help everyday life, such as gunpowder, printing and mathematics. If it weren’t for these inventions, writing, wars and math would be much harder for the Chinese.

The invention of gunpowder was an accident, it was made while trying to come up with a mixture of immortality. They mixed, sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal and it exploded. They realized that they could use it as an explosive, such as a grenade, in war and they did. It was not just an explosive, they also realized if they made it in a specific form they could use it to explode colors in the sky which they thought looked good especially during New Year. Just recently, some Arab countries have started using the invention.

Printing helped the wealthy people do their jobs more easily and also made books available to whoever could buy or use them. The Chinese discovered, that if you put each character on a separate block people could put ink on them and place it in the order in which they would use in order to print their words onto paper. They figured it wouldn’t take as long as writing it out by hand. But, it wasn’t as successful as it was thought to be due to the many characters in the Chinese language.The invention of solving algebraic problems was spread worldwide and was useful to many people, especially to people who have an interest in math. It was discovered by Al-Khwarizmi, he figured it out by using addition and multiplication. It was an amazing discovery.

These inventions have helped many people with their jobs and has made their life easier. They will help genorations to come, in math, war and writing.