Paper | Chinese inventions (Hello China #11)

A Chinese imperial court clerk named Cai Lun has been credited with inventing the very first type of paper made from plant fibre. This "father of paper" would be astonished to see how his invention has impacted global development since he first experimented with the revolutionary material in the year 105 CE.
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