Even though the invention of the wheel around 6,000 years ago revolutionized everything from transportation to pottery making, its exact origins are still a mystery to archaeologists. But a new ...

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 ...

1498 - Rifling principle is discovered. 1509 - Invention of wheel lock (rose lock). The next major advance, the wheel lock, generates a spark mechanically. With no wick to keep lit, the wheel lock ...

Inventor William Liddiard invented a wheel with motorized internal rollers that can rotate a tire horizontally. A car with these wheels can move laterally or even rotate about its axis. Following ...

It has been a pleasure in past columns to share my opinion of the two greatest inventions of all time: sticky notes and wheels on suitcases.

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 ...

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 ...