Late Bronze Age timeline: 2000 – 1000 BC
Earliest known spoked wheels, from a grave in western Siberia When about 2000 BC the Central Asians invented better wheels with spokes, so you could fight from your chariot, a new [...]
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Bronze Age timeline: 4000-2000 BC
A Bronze Age clay pot with a drawing of a wheeled cart from what is now Poland, about 3500 BC Cities, kings and empires Around 4000 BC, there were enough people [...]
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09, 2017
History of engineering – transportation, cooking, metal
A Neanderthal stone awl People have been using engineering to solve the problems of their daily lives since the first caveman picked up a rock and chipped away at it to make a handaxe. [...]
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08, 2017
Wheel and axle – Simple machines – Physics
An Egyptian potter uses a pottery wheel, about 2000 BC. He uses his hand to spin the wheel. Wheels do not exist in nature, and no animals use them except [...]
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Pulley – Simple machines – Physics
Clothesline pulley A pulley is really a kind of wheel, just as a screw is a kind of inclined plane. But pulleys are so important that people give them their own category. A pulley [...]
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08, 2017
Simple machines – Physics
An example of a screw, a wedge, a wheel and axle, and a lever Machines are ways to make it easier to do work. Many plants and animals have evolved natural [...]
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History of Bicycles – Steel and feminism
A velocipede Early wooden bicycles Bicycles were invented bit by bit in many different countries. They grew out of earlier inventions like wheels (from Central Asia) and wheelbarrows and cranks (from China), but Karl [...]
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Buddhism in India – A religion of ancient India – History of Buddhism
Buddhism in India - Buddha Reincarnation and the wheel In the 500s BC, during the later part of the Vedic period in India, the idea of reincarnation became very strong among Hindus. Most people [...]
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06, 2017
Where do horses come from?
Where do horses come from? Wild horses and the history of horses Where did horses first evolve? Horses, at first, were all wild animals like zebras are today. Although they [...]
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06, 2017
Stone Age China – Early Chinese History
Jade dragon-pig from New Stone Age China When did the first people come to China? Early people made it to China about 700,000 years ago. They were Homo Erectus, and [...]
