The Ever Rolling Wheel

Fan

Old Handle Sharpener

Electric Toothbrush

Hard Drive

Clothes Washer

A few of the many examples in which the wheel has been built for and is successful at are door knobs, water wheels, egg beaters, pencil sharpeners, casters, rolling pins, fans, record players, rotary dial telephones, windmills, roller skates and the wheels used on a wagon, car or bicycle.

Rotatory Dial Telephone

The Ever Rolling Wheel

Even in the places you would have least expected such as in hard-drives, clothes washers and electric toothbrushes!

3. What types of situations can the wheel and axle be more efficient and successful at?

I think that due to this simple machine being used for different causes, it can have its more successful ways of functioning and others that are not as successful, depending on how the wheels and axles are built, and what main purpose it serves in a bigger machine.

Record Player

Rolling

Pin

The primary idea and meaning of this artifact is that wheels and axles can be the most useful simple machine to mankind because within it you can to be able to move things around in various ways.

It may have been used as early as 3000 b.c., just as the lever, it is a very important simple machine. Unlike the lever that can be rotated to pry an object loose or push a load along, a wheel and axle can move a load much farther.

2. What kind of other different materials could the wheel and axle be made of?

I am curious to know if there are any other materials, (besides wood, iron, rubber, plastic, etc) that the wheel and axle could be made of, depending on its specific function.

1. How can it be related and work with other simple machines?

Considering it is already a very useful machine, the wheel and axle can be combined with other types of simple machines in order to make daily life even easier and more convenient to live in.

5. How would humans live without the invention of the wheel and axle?

4. How has this invention influenced other innovations?

This simple machine can be and is part of other compound implements, so this would help in the innovation of other machines since it has a major role in various objects around us.

Actually, the wheel has not only influenced other inventions but the idea was originally formed from the mechanical utensil known as potter’s wheel invented by the Sumerians, soon after 3500 B.C.

People rely so much on this machine in their daily lives, it would be interesting to know how living without the wheel and axle would be like because it is used in so many things, in so many places, and has such diverse functions. How would societies have developed without it?

The Inca, Aztec and Maya civilizations were able to accomplish high levels of development without the use of the wheel. There is no provided evidence to show that there was any use of the wheel between the native people in all of the Western Hemisphere until they reached full, complete contact with the Europeans.

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