Hall Of Innovation |
On the Wheels of History |
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| Nothing is comparable with the use of fire except wheels in the historyof civilization.Wheels were possibly invented alongside with vehicles at about4000 years BC. Relics of wheels have been continuously discovered from Mesopotamia, Germany, Poland and Syria. The earliest wheels composed of only two pieces of wood, which were replaced, around 2000 years BC by wheels with spokes. The carts with this new kind of wheels were drawn by horses, which accelerated the speed immensely. The development of vehicles stemmed from wheels, i.e. from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles, thus history and wheels roll forward together. |
