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Revolutions

The wheel is often thought to have been invented by the Sumeriana during the Uruk Period. It was 3500 tc 100 first employed for transportation in a four-wheeled cart, as a solid wooden disc. INITED STATES-0000 2000 2000 000000 1500 S1800 1000 ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION 1 Rohary quиn c. 500 / SPAIN 1 Wind powerod organ c. 50/ ECYPT 1 Potter'e whoal a500 se / INDUS VALLEY 1 Chariot o. 3000 o / MESOPOTAMIA 2 Spoked wheel e 2 Pulky BOOae/ ASSYRIA 2 Scoop whoel c. 300 s /EGYPT 3 Water wheel C. 240/ECYPT 2 Roulotte whoel c. 1716/FRANCI 2.2000 /EIRAIANSTEPPE 3 Roller skate c. 1760 / ENCLAND 3 Cear e 250 se / EGYFT 3 Packile wheal o. T00 CHINA 4 Ship's wheel e. lice ENOLAND 4 Wheeked plow c. 60/ CAUL 5 Wheelbarrow c. 200/CHINA 6 Windmill c. 900/PERSIA 4 Phenakistcacope 1832/ BELGIUM 4 Spinning wheel e 100e CHINA S Clock balanes whoel 5 Automobile 1789/FRANCE 5 Marry-go-таd c. 1860/ ENGLAND 6 Phonograph LATT / UNITEDSTATES 7 Forria whoel 1675 / NETHERLANDS 6 Spinning jenny 1765/ENCLAND 6 Pneumatic tire 1845/SOOTLAND 1 Tractor 189e / UNITED STATES 7 Circular aaw e 1770/ENGLAND 7 Veocipede 1888/FRANCE La93 / UNITEDSTATES 8 Hay-wheel ralke 8 Film reel 1995 / FRANCE 8 Skam-ongino flywhoel 1782/ ENCLAND 8 Tweel (airless tire 2006 / UNITED STATES 1948 / NETHERLANDS a00 0000

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One of three infographics made for the Spring 2014 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This graphic maps the origin of the wheel and the innovations that followed.

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