Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

PHOENIX — A futuristic-sounding super tire, set to be available for commercial release next March, is quite literally a wheel of steel, according to the engineering company behind its development, ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of ...

Humans have come a long way from their early days as primitive beings. Over time, as their minds developed, they started ...

Evidence indicates the wheel was created to serve as potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before they were used for chariots. Jim Vecchi / Corbis It’s fair to say that when an ...

I seem to recall children's toys from the pre-Columbian Americas demonstrated the understanding of wheel even though there wasn't any evidence of more general use of the principle. I guess an idea has ...