How Did The Invention Of The Wheel Changed The World

The Invention and Development of the Wheel 

Wheel Invention In Around 3500 B.C.

The first wheels were not used for transportation. Evidence indicates they were created to serve  as Potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before someone figured out to use them for chariots. The ancient Greeks invented Western philosophy…and the wheelbarrow.The invention of the wheel has also been important for technology in general, important applications including the water wheel, the cogwheel (see also antithetical mechanism), the spinning wheel, and the astrolabe or torque-tum. More modern descendants of the wheel include the propeller, the jet engine, the flywheel (gyroscope) and the turbine.

                        The Invention and Development of the Wheel 

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  Ljubljana Marshes Wheel, from around 3150 BC (the oldest known wooden wheel in the world).
 
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  Twentieth-century solid wheel made of wooden boards, bound with a metal wheel rim
 
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  Spiked wheels on the ancient Etruscan Montele one chariot, 2nd quarter of the 6th century B.C.
     
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  Spiked wheel with bronze sheeting from Árokalja, from around 1000 BC.
 
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  Radially- (left) and tangentially- (right) wire-spiked wheels, both with pneumatic tires.
 
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  Cast alloy wheel on a folding bicycle, with a pneumatic tire.