I feel like there is a lot of emphasis on the invention of the wheel or is that just me? Why was it so revolutionary?
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Aside from vastly increasing the range, speed, and cargo capacity of overland transportation, and making possible such devices as pulleys, fairly crucial for advanced engineering and architecture, eh, not much, I guess…
But seriously, the wheel made possible commerce on a whole new level, enabling settlements a lot further away from waterways and accelerating the sharing of information and advancement of science by virtue of so much faster transportation by a degree comparable to the development of movable type for printing, or the spread of the internet. It’s one of the most important technologies developed in mechanical science, and one of the earliest.
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