3# Inventions That Changed The World - ( The 🎡 Wheel )

Welcome Dear Steemians, to an episode of #inventions!

Today we're going to discover more about our wheels, yes, a wheel is one of the things that make our world what it is today. Just imagine if your car, train, bike or maybe even an airplane wouldn't have any wheels...

Even our life has wheels, and all of them have to run properly all the time. That's our chance to make the best of it! Now lets see what are wheels all about, shall we?

HISTORY: The Wheel

The wheel is an invention so ancient that we have no way of knowing who first developed it or who is the @inventor16. It was used as some kind of a tool at first. The Halaf culture of 6500–5100 B.C. is sometimes credited with the earliest depiction of a wheeled vehicle, but this is doubtful as there is no evidence of Halafians using either wheeled vehicles or even pottery wheels. We do know that the oldest wheel and axle mechanism we've found was actually in my home country, near Ljubljana - Slovenia, and dates to roughly 3100 B.C. I'm pretty sure it was the "Barje Park" area where other cool discoveries were made about the true history of our world.

The Oldest Wheel - 3100 B.C. - Original Photo - http://www.ljubljanskobarje.si

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HOW & WHY

These wheels were really simple in a way, made of wood. But surprisingly made very good, tough enough to survive everything I guess. It was a precise job even back then. Scientists say that was probably used for transporting cargo around and that would make the most sense if you ask me. Simple & officiant!

WHO ACTUALLY MADE THEM FIRST?

The invention of the wheel falls into the late Neolithic and may be seen in conjunction with other technological advances that gave rise to the early Bronze Age. Note that this implies the passage of several wheel-less millennia even after the invention of agriculture and of pottery, during the Aceramic Neolithic (9500–6500 BCE). 4500–3300 BCE: Chalcolithic, an invention of the potter's the wheel; earliest wood wheels (disks with a hole for the axle); earliest wheeled vehicles, domestication of the horse 3300–2200 BCE: Early Bronze Age. 2200–1550 BCE: Middle Bronze Age, an invention of the spoked wheel and the chariot.Precursors of wheels, known as "tournettes" or "slow wheels", were known in the Middle East by the 5th millennium BCE (one of the earliest examples was discovered at Tepe Pardis, Iran, and dated to 5200–4700 BCE). These were made of stone or clay and secured to the ground with a peg in the center but required significant effort to turn. True (freely-spinning) potter's wheels were apparently in use in Mesopotamia by 3500 BCE and possibly as early as 4000 BCE, and the oldest surviving example, which was found in Ur (modern-day Iraq), dates to approximately 3100 BCE. The first evidence of wheeled vehicles appears in the second half of the 4th millennium BCE, near-simultaneously in Mesopotamia (Sumerian civilization), the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe (Cucuteni-Trypillian culture), so the question of which culture originally invented the wheeled vehicle is still unsolved. The earliest well-dated depiction of a wheeled vehicle (here a wagon — four wheels, two axles) is on the Bronocice pot, a c. 3500 – 3350 BCE clay pot excavated in a Funnelbeaker culture settlement in southern Poland. Two types of early Neolithic European wheel and axle are known; a circumalpine type of wagon construction (the wheel and axle rotate together, as in Ljubljana Marshes Wheel), and that of the Baden culture in Hungary (axle does not rotate). They both are dated to c. 3200–3000 BCE. In China, the wheel was certainly present with the adoption of the chariot in c. 1200 BCE, although Barbieri-Low argues for earlier Chinese wheeled vehicles, c. 2000 BC. In Britain, a large wooden wheel, measuring about 1 m (3.3 ft) in diameter, was uncovered at the Must Farm site in East Anglia in 2016. The specimen, dating from 1,100–800 years BCE, represents the most complete and earliest of its type found in Britain. The wheel's hub is also present. A horse's spine found nearby suggests the wheel may have been part of a horse-drawn cart. The wheel was found in a settlement built on stilts over wetland, indicating that the settlement had some sort of link to dry land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel

Some Examples Of a Wheel Today

Enough "Hot Wheels" for today:)

Until next time, thanks for stopping by! I upvote sweet comments so go for it, any upvote or resteem is much appreciated! If you have time for another post, please check my Ep. 2! Stay awesome!