History Of Wheels

History Discovery Wheel (Wheel's History of Invention) Ivan Taniputera May 3, 2012 which is considered the inventor of the Nation is the nation's wheels Elam who lived in Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates valley). Considered as such, because the sculptures they created is the oldest depiction of the wheel. Although there is a possibility that the wheel is older than the nation of Elam, but it must be coming from the area around the place of their residence. Why is that? Because the wheel is not found in other regions of the world, except in the nations where ever coming into contact directly or indirectly with the Tigris Valley culture - Euphrates [1]. Kish also in Mesopotamia, found 5,000-year-old wheels. So we may conclude that the wheel was found in the Mesopotamia region.

Perhaps the idea of ??reinventing the wheels came from wooden rollers placed at the bottom of the board to make it easier to place the burden of moving. So the burden was rolled upon the rolls, and after that rolnya moved forward, and so on. Thanks to the use of the wooden rollers, cow age tractor can load longer. Wooden rollers which serves as the hoop likely the forerunner of wheels. Subsequent developments are entirely conjectural. Neither the board nor the load carrying wooden roller will both wear out after repeated use. The result is the notch on wooden rollers. In the meantime, this is a good thing, because it will prevent the wood roller slips out of the board where the load. However, if the wear and tear it gets in the form of the notch, then the middle between the two notches will rub against the board where the load. As a result, the movement becomes smooth.

People and find a way, how so this does not happen. They then make that the center of the roller to be smaller than the edges. Be two wheels connected by a shaft to be one with him. However, because both are fused with its axis, the wheels are forced to move with the same speed, so it can not turn easily. Mankind is not fond despair, and they were looking for another reason. Created with a fixed pivot each wheel spinning him. Thus, both of them can spin at different speeds. This makes it easy to turn. That was the forerunner of the wheel as it is now. Wheel then spread to various places. Ancestors of Europeans, most of Asia, and several African nations have known the wheel for several thousand years. But other nations are new to the wheel before modern times. For example, the Egyptians have known that using a chariot wheel. In the tombs of the kings of Egypt can be found the remains of chariots, which would use the wheel. Thanks to an advanced chariots, the Assyrians under Sennacherib (approximately 720 BC) managed to develop their vast empire. [1] See Wheels: A Pictorial History, page 9. SOURCE: Tunis, Edwin. Wheels: A Pictorial History, The World Publishing Company, 1954.