Wang Zhen (inventor)

This article is about Wang Zhen, agronomist and inventor. For other people with the same name, see Wang Zhen (disambiguation).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.
Watermills in Wang Zhen's Nong Shu, volume 19

Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade–Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290–1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). He was one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing technology. His illustrated agricultural treatise was also one of the most advanced of its day, covering a wide range of equipment and technologies available in the late 13th and early 14th century.