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Who invented the wheel?

Five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia a spinning disk became the cart — and motion itself became a technology of power.

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It looks like nothing — a disk that turns. But the wheel is the ancestor of every machine that moves, and the day it first rolled, distance itself shrank.

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