How did the invention of wheel help in the development of human civilisation ?
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The wheel being one of human history's earliest inventions can be described as a device that rotates around its axis and is used to carry loads in different machines from one place to another and perform tasks.
THE WHEEL is often described as the most important invention of all time – it had a fundamental impact on transport and later on agriculture and industry.
The wheel-and-axle combination was invented around 4500 BC and was probably first used for a potter’s wheel.
The idea was quickly adapted for other uses – in particular on wagons and chariots. On the earliest carts, the wheels were heavy, solid, and attached to the axle so the whole assembly turned together. Soon, it became common for the wheels to turn around a fixed axle.
Wheels with spokes, first made around 2000 BC, were lighter, enabling vehicles to move faster.
Wheels were initially useful on carts and chariots pulled by oxen or horses. But humans discovered that a wheel powered by people, animals, wind or flowing water can be put to many other uses.
Foot-powered spinning wheels appeared around 500 BC, water-wheels in the first century BC and windmills in the seventh century AD. During the 17th and 18th centuries, water-wheels powered huge machines in cotton mills.
Eventually, the steam engine became the preferred source of power to turn the wheels of industry.
Similarly, there are several other new inventions which could not have been possible without the help of the wheel.
All these led to the development of human civilization.