Spotlight: We don't know who invented the
wheel, but it has been reinvented over and over again. First evidence of the item was in diagrams on ancient clay tablets: there were pictures of a
potter's wheel that was used in
Ur in
Mesopotamia, c. 3,500
BCE. It is thought that the Mesopotamians first used it for transportation, on their chariots, sometime around 3,200 BCE. Wheels developed in Europe around 2,000 years later. The
B.F. Goodrich Company reinvented the wheel on this date in 1947, when they announced the development of the
tubeless tire.
Quote: "Imagination is a very precise thing, you know — it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking — that is imagination!" — Jacques Lipchitz
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