We don’t know whether Europe’s ancient wagon technology was wheeled in from elsewhere or invented independently. But there is another line of evidence that the wheel was established in Europe ...

The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

A person who spins needs two things, in addition to time: the raw material (wool, flax, cotton) that is to be spun, and a spindle or wheel with which to spin it. Throughout history, most spinners have ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

Experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy provides a glimpse of the world defined by the mechanical art of film On the Invention of the Wheel becomes a metaphor for the ...