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I'm still trying to catch up with real mechanics but this
might entertain them too. Personally I don't think it was lack of metal
tools to create good surfaces. I believe it was people having to settle
in one place to grow crops and make roads instead of following animal
trails to hunt from mobile camps. Then one day a bored teenager playing
and spining a hunk of meat on a stake dropped it to see it roll a ways
then looked at the roads and vola first skate board and rest is history.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... Wheel.html
The wheel was a relative latecomer.
We tend to think that inventing the wheel was item number two on our to-do list after learning to walk upright. But several significant inventions predated the wheel by thousands of years: sewing needles, woven cloth, rope, basket weaving, boats and even the flute.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... z1oCa1YgLQ
might entertain them too. Personally I don't think it was lack of metal
tools to create good surfaces. I believe it was people having to settle
in one place to grow crops and make roads instead of following animal
trails to hunt from mobile camps. Then one day a bored teenager playing
and spining a hunk of meat on a stake dropped it to see it roll a ways
then looked at the roads and vola first skate board and rest is history.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... Wheel.html
The wheel was a relative latecomer.
We tend to think that inventing the wheel was item number two on our to-do list after learning to walk upright. But several significant inventions predated the wheel by thousands of years: sewing needles, woven cloth, rope, basket weaving, boats and even the flute.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... z1oCa1YgLQ