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Computer Simulations Reveal the Wheel's Unlikely Birth Nearly 6k Years Ago
- JoeAltmaier 1y agoDidn't Nero have ball bearings in his rotating restaurant? Would that have pre-dated the 'Parisian Bicycles Mechanic' that is credited with them?
- ahazred8ta 1y agoThis article misses the point. The thing they describe is a "wheelset", where the wheels are hard-attached to the axle and cannot spin unless the axle spins with them. The invention of the "wheel" involved a brass hub that allows each wheel to turn freely on a stationary axle, but this article says nothing about that.