9th Century - Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

  • List of 9th-10th centuries inventions
  • First image of a rotary grindstone in a European source—illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West (Utrecht Psalter, 843)
  • First known printed book, the Diamond Sutra, printed in China using woodblock printing in 868 AD.
  • Invention of gunpowder by Chinese Taoist Alchemists.
  • Vulgar Latin begins to develop into various Romance languages.
  • Two syllabaries or kana are developed from simplified Chinese characters in Japan.

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