By Stacey Burt


A wheel is a disc-shaped object with ideally circular contour, which is mounted rotatably about its axis of symmetry and is most commonly used as a wagon wheel. This invention and use of carts or wagons was an important for the development of technical culture in prehistoric event. Is an essential advantage unrolling its circumference on the ground. Sliding takes place only in lubricated bearings (Karaoke on 4 Wheels).

As the material only wood was used for thousands of years. The first spoke wheel had bronze spoke, later in Bronze Age and then outweighed wooden spoke wheel only involving the rubbing on the inner surface of axle hub and the outer race of rim with metal was misty. Advances in metallurgy towards ever more stable metals found then also use.

Not until the invention of steam engine and the internal combustion engine, which led to higher transport services and speeds, the wheel were completely in iron and later steel plate welded together designed as rim. The lubricated hub sleeves were replaced by roller bearings. Wheel for low loads were provided in lightweight construction with wire spokes that are biased and loaded on train.

The design of wheel was always (later paths and roads) matched to surface to be traversed, and improves the surface corresponding to increased requirements. Steel frost on wooden rim wheel for wheelbarrows, two- or four-wheeled wagons, carts or carriages on farmland, field or boardwalks or cobbled streets or the first commercially operated electric tram in FOTG on rails.

The edge of tread was chamfered or rounded. Some faces were so well preserved that smoothing strokes of a tool can be seen. The wheel created from alder wood belonged to a car whose front could not swing. When changing the direction the draft animals dragged the front of car to side until the drawbar pointed in desired direction.

In loop but some of load and the design weight to carry, they had an advantage over other means of transport a good off-road capability. When using a sledge and rod loops usually a high sliding resistance was overcome. A transport rollers was possible only on well prepared surface and short distances.

Proved rolling transport from the Bronze Age Egypt. The disadvantage was that the wheel all the way designed or repeatedly taken back and had to be placed in front of object to be transported over again. But you could move relatively heavy loads, as they are spread over a larger area than it is in bearings of wheel later.

Become wheel by means of bearings rotating on axes - now mostly only journal - mounted a vehicle, a substantial reduction in friction forces and thus energy is thus compared to grind the transportable object over a distance to be traveled or saving transport of heavy goods . A fast movement of goods and people, primarily on relatively flat paths obtained.




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