![]() ![]() Evidence of early usage of wheeled carts have been found across the Middle East, in Europe, Eastern Europe, and China. However, unlike other breakthrough inventions, the wheel cannot be attributed to a single nor several inventors. ![]() Mesopotamian civilization is credited with the invention of the wheel. The place and time of the invention of the wheel remains unclear, because the oldest hints do not guarantee the existence of real wheeled transport, or are dated with too much scatter. The English word wheel comes from the Old English word hweol, hweogol, from Proto-Germanic * hwehwlan, *hwegwlan, from Proto-Indo-European * k wek wlo-, an extended form of the root * k wel- "to revolve, move around".Ĭognates within Indo-European include Icelandic hjól "wheel, tyre", Greek κύκλος kúklos, and Sanskrit chakra, the latter two both meaning "circle" or "wheel". ![]()
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