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To: Bernard Marx

What makes the wheel useful is having domesticated animals that can pull a wagon. They didn’t have horses or oxen.


14 posted on 08/02/2020 3:16:48 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Great minds think alike...


16 posted on 08/02/2020 3:33:15 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: SauronOfMordor; GreenLanternCorps

Humans are pretty good draft animals. I’m thinking of the old hand-pulled rickshaws in the Orient and the handcarts many Americans dragged across half our continent on their way to Utah and Oregon. I’m sure there are lots of other examples. And the Mayans certainly had plenty of human power.


30 posted on 08/02/2020 5:09:10 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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