2 stories
1088 AD. China's emperor wanted to know the exact time. Su Song built a thirty-foot tower of spinning bronze. It tracked the stars. It rang bells. It moved on its own. Europe would not match it for five hundred years.
105 CE. China wrote on heavy silk and bamboo. Cai Lun, a court official, boiled bark, hemp, and rags into pulp. He pressed it flat. Dried it. It held ink perfectly. He showed the Emperor. The world changed.
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