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Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
By Steven Vogel
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By Steven Vogel
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"A brilliant history of technology. . . . full of wonders of nature, human invention, history" and more (Wall Street Journal).
There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, humans have developed technologies powered by human strength, complem...