For over 2,000 years Chinese society was pre-eminent in technological development. It was only at the beginning of the fifteenth century that it began to decline and was passed by Europe. Its technology began with agricultural, textile, and war machines; it was enhanced with hydraulic machines; and it was completed with the ingenious clocks and automatons that were built while the rest of the world was just waking up.
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Paz, E. B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J. E., & Sanz, J. L. M. (2010). Chinese inventions and machines. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 10, pp. 19–42). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_2
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