➥ How different would the world be if the wheel wasn’t invented ? What's the importance of wheel in this modern era ?
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How come even we are discussing this question ? This sentence seem us funny, right ?
Though its funny, but still its the qúestion regarding wheel is a major point of concern. If wheel wasn't invented, then the world could have been a lot different. We wouldn't have seen vehicles, we wouldn't have an easier and a relaxing journey and finally, we wouldn't have been able to do many of our daily chores. Let's discuss an example relating to this first. Suppose we want to make 'Puri' at our home and we see that we don't have wheat flour with us. But luckily we have wheat grains in store room of our house. So, in hurry we take up those wheat grains to mill and let them for grinding.
Now think, if there won't have been wheel, then how that wheat flour would have produced since mill - belt can't work with a triangular component instead of wheel right ? This really is so funny to imagine. Similar case follows with every purpose of wheel. Kindly refer the first attachment whicy shows the earliest forms of wheel. It seems really heavy and hard even very difficult to use. This led to development of wheels to many stages.
Please refer the next attachments which shows the development in wheels. If wheels won't have been there, then we wouldn't have been able to travel to any place. We see that most of the transport systems need wheels except water transport system.
Even many of our vessels and decorative systems which are made by potters, wouldn't have been made because potters use wheels to make it.
Now let's discuss the importance of wheel in modern era ::
Have we ever pondered upon that in what ways are wheels important to us ?
Wheels have played a major role in development of human civilisation. We see, that according to the age and situations, the structure and purpose of the wheel were also developed. The last attachment shows the modern wheel.
Wheels play a major role in the locomotion and travel of people from one place to another.
In villages, people use heavy stone wheels as grinders for different cereals.
- Wheels are used in mills for grinding purposes.
- Wheels are used by potters to make different varieties of potteries.
- The developed form of wheel are the coins.
- Wheels are used in transport chain for easy transportation of coals and other minerals from their mines.
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✧ How different would the world be if the wheel wasn’t invented ? What's the importance of wheel in this modern era ?
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✯ What is wheel ?
Wheel, a circular frame of hard material that may be solid, partly solid, or spoked and that is capable of turning on an axle.
✯ How different would the world be if the wheel wasn’t invented ?
Many more generations of human beings lived before the invention of the wheel than since its invention
•Without wheels there might have been much more use of sledges which are still the vehicle of choice over snow, sand and thick mud.
•Rollers might be used a lot more for moving heavy stuff.
•Rollers are not wheels and it is not a simple step from roller to wheel.
•There might also have been much more use of water as the course of transport.
✯ What's the importance of wheel in this modern era ?
•The first major uses of the wheel were in pottery wheels, allow for the pottery to rotate while the potter shaped it.
•loads can be moved with little effort, and second, it means that loads can be transported over large distances.
• wheel as an invention continuously gives mankind the ability to innovate. Unlike fire, which was likely a product of accident rather than design (at least at first), the wheel is the first invention that truly put humanity on a path to create a global civilization.
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✯History of wheel
wheels were not at first used for transportation. Early wheels consisted of a wooden disk and hole for the axle did play a vital role in early societies. They were commonly used for pottery, irrigation, and milling. It took hundreds of years for the wheel to make its way onto the first chariots.
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