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12,000-year-old discovery forces experts to spin new story about wheel’s origins
While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...
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Speed Challenge: Spinning a Lego Wheel to the Max
How fast can a Lego wheel spin using gears and one or two Lego motors? This time, the tire is removed to reduce vibrations and improve performance. The video tests speeds beyond 2850 RPM and ...
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Pebbles Push Back the Invention of the Wheel to About 12,000 Years Ago
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
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On a carnivorous note, [Chad] from Cure Cooking showed my companion and me the correct way to dry-cure meats using time-honored methods.
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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In Motion
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
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Fail Of The Week: Spinning The Pripyat Ferris Wheel
With the wheel now free spinning, the team is elated to see the ... deal of the following day attempting to spin the mechanism using the rear wheel of one of their electric bicycles.
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12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...