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The World is forever in debt to for its innovations. Ancient was extreme advance and many of its discoveries are still in use today. This is what Robert Temple, the author of The Genius of 3000 years of science, discovery and invention. The book is based o ....

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.... greatest achievement. The development of iron and steel led to other advances. By at least the 4th century the Chinese have developed blast furnaces to obtain cast iron from iron ore. This was 1200 years before the first blast furnace showed up in Europe. The reasons that the author gave to explain the reasons why the Chinese developed this technology are simple. The Chinese had access to large amounts of clay, the key ingredient in making blast furnaces. The Chinese also figured out that by adding a substance they called :Black Earth,” they could lower the melting point of iron. Another major invention of the Chinese, that led to ....