Technology from the Past - The invention of the wheel

It was believed that the wheel was used around 3250 B.C.E. they might have been used for pottery first.Later on, people decided to put wheels into other uses since it was very difficult to transport goods from one place to another. They invented the multiple uses of wheels. Wheels were attached to chariots, ploughs, and carts and donkeys and oxen were used to pull the vehicles. This way of transportation helped a lot of farmers to carry their food to the city. It also helped people like archers in war chariots.

Enduring Contribution

We still use wheels today! We still use them for pottery and we still use transportation with the help of wheels. Almost all the transportation vehicles starting from horse driven carriages to cars, buses, tractors, and even airplanes use wheels. This shows that people developed the simple, slow wheeled vehicles into very sophisticated, fast moving vehicles.

Bibliography

de Camp, L. S. (2012). Wheel. In The New Book of Knowledge. Retrieved January 10, 2012, from Grolier Online http://nbk.grolier.com/article?id=a2031630-h&product_id=nbk

World History Societies of the Past textbook - The Legacy of the Sumerians - page 6