Thursday, April 14, 2011

Question 1084: Quack quack Cusack

This is one of the earliest Chinese inventions used for what purpose? Nowadays, it has been replaced by more accurate devices.



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Answer: The first earthquake detecting/measuring device invented by Zhang Heng from China. Now replaced by the seismoscope. More about the device here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismograph#Zhang_Heng.27s_seismoscope

18 Answers:

Nanda said...

Seismograph. Used in the wake of earthquakes

Aditya said...

Earthquake prediction machine. something to do with the egg/ball being dropped from the Dragon's mouth indicating an earthquake.

prashanth said...

used for sensing earthquakes beforehand...
now, we have seismographs....

Piyush Deshpande said...

It is used to detect earthquake...

Sukanto said...

This was used for measuring / knowing if earthquakes are coming......

indian said...

Zhang Heng's seismometer.

Aaslesh said...

Seismograph

Karthik G V said...

A clock....!

wheelsandwings said...

Its a seismometer, used to measure waves generated by volcanoes/earthquakes etc

Saswat said...

Seismoscope (Earthquake intensity measurement)

ALOK GUPTA said...

THE DRAGON JAR

Stumbler said...

Seismometer

Rahul Varma said...

Earthquake predicting

Siddarth Pai said...

Earliest seismograph
used to measure from where the earthquake came

Amit Dandekar said...

Seismometer or Seismoscope

Raul said...

Earthquake detection

Sarang Ramakrishnan said...

It's an ancient Chinese Seismometer
used for detecting Earthquakes.

Replaced now my the modern Seismographs etc.

Mundu said...

seismometer