Xie Fei
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Who is Xie Fei?
Xiè Fēi was a Jie state Later Zhao scholar who occupied a position as Head of the Healing Department in the State Chancellery. He is known as a mechanical engineer who built a South Pointing Chariot, a directional compass vehicle which apparently did not use magnetic principles, but was operated by use of differential gears, or a similar angular differential principle.
For the great ingenuity shown in the construction of the device, the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Jilong granted him the noble title of hou without land possessions and rewarded him generously.
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