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these ideas changed the world welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten inventions of all time number 10 paper one of the Chinese people's four great inventions paper was invented and developed in the second century BC by the Han Dynasty the idea eventually travelled to Europe where paper mills began manufacturing the product on a larger scale without paper the printing press would never have been invented and our world would be very different we would not have Maps paper currency for books to disperse information its impact is truly endless number nine the compass before the compass sailors depended on landmarks or even the Stars to navigate their ships but once the Chinese began using lodestones and magnetism to find their bearings between the 9th and 11th centuries it quickly spread to the Arab world and to Europe this not only made circumnavigation of the globe easier it also made it safer which kicked off the Age of Discovery number eight ref