Ancient Chinese Seismometer Used Dragons and Toads
In 132 AD, Chinese astronomer Zhang Heng created a seismometer, a device that detects the ground’s movement during an earthquake. It couldn’t predict quakes but it did show what direction they were coming from — even when they were hundreds of miles away! Zhang was also a mathematician and mechanical engineer who constructed many practical
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