We Were Wrong About How and When The Wheel Was Invented
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about who actually invented the wheel (and why)
Links:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240373
https://ri.abtk.hu/images/letoltes_publ/bondar.maria/Bondar_Acta_2018_dec_102_tetelhez.pdf
https://theconversation.com/how-was-the-wheel-invented-computer-simulations-reveal-the-unlikely-birth-of-a-world-changing-technology-nearly-6-000-years-ago-244038
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-wheel/9780231173384/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2841649?origin=crossref
https://www3.nasa.gov/specials/wheels/#pg1
0:00 History of the wheel
2:10 Previous assumptions
3:20 How early humans probably came up with this - rollers
4:20 Bolarez culture may have invented this
5:00 Link to mining
5:50 Modifications to rollers and how this evolved
7:10 Study tests this with models
8:10 Gradual process and not eureka
8:45 Ball bearings and NASA wheels
10:15 Conclusions
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