Facts and Figures-97: A Salute to the Wheel

A Salute to the Wheel | Science | Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-salute-to-the-wheel-31805121/

Evidence indicates wheels 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.

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