How i started this collection
I have always appreciated those who had an idea and believe that necessity is truly the mother of many inventions. Sometimes a great idea comes about after trial and error or sometimes it happens accidentally while trying to solve another issue. All i know is that many of history's greatest inventions have their origins in Asia, specifically China. The four great inventions of paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder are attributed to inventors from China. When these amazing innovations spread outside of China it changed our world in dramatic ways. I got to thinking, if these came from China, I wonder, what other inventions may have originated in China? And so began my information quest. Looking back, my high school and college history classes did not really go into much detail about China. I may have learned about some of these but it could be that i just forgot. I also lost my best friend and fiance', who was Chinese, to cancer ...