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The early wheel: Solid, wooden and round versus spoked, wooden and round?
12-11-07
| Dean Baker
Posted on 12/10/2007 12:32:15 PM PST by Dean Baker
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Just a simple question that popped into my simple mind. :)
To: Dean Baker
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:34:38 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(If Rudy's an influential conservative, then I'm an award winning concert pianist.)
To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim
The early wheel: Solid, wooden and round versus spoked, wooden and round?Turn page paper alert?
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:35:13 PM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Everything was fine until membership lost its privileges)
To: Dean Baker
To: ElkGroveDan
LOL!!
Just another example of why even before Google, I do a search for any given subject on Free Republic.
Loved the Wheel Dancer!!
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:36:30 PM PST
by
Dean Baker
(Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts do.)
To: Dean Baker
I would assume that solid came first. Spokes would be lighter but I suspect that there would be a lot more work involved in making them.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:36:32 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: Dean Baker
I dunno, but I want Ben Hur wheels.
To: Dean Baker
Ask the 'inventor' Al Gore:
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:40:41 PM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: cripplecreek
I would assume that solid came first. Spokes would be lighter but I suspect that there would be a lot more work involved in making them.I would assume the same thing but it seems solid wooden wheels would break-down pretty easily if traveling down stone roads?
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:41:16 PM PST
by
Dean Baker
(Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts do.)
To: Dean Baker
IIRC, there were solid wheels in specific applications (cannons on ships, for example) hundreds of years later.
Not sure if that speaks to which came first, but the existance of one would not infer total replacement of the other.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:41:41 PM PST
by
chrisser
(Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between “conservation” and the neutron bomb.”- Mark Steyn)
To: Constitution Day
Your wheels are weak, young Hur... < /Darth Vader>
To: Tijeras_Slim
All your wheels are belong to us.....
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:47:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: Dean Baker
A spoked wheel requires a lathe to turn the spokes. Definately not easy or cheap in Biblical times.
Spoked wheels are much lighter but I would have to guess that they were extremely expensive.
Solid wheels would have been much cheaper, and capable of carrying heavier loads as well.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:47:49 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:48:54 PM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Everything was fine until membership lost its privileges)
To: Dean Baker
You’ll have to ask the spokesperson.
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To: Yo-Yo
A spoked wheel requires a lathe to turn the spokes.Not really, but the alternative is very labor intensive.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:57:49 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people. Socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: Dean Baker
FWIW, “Gladiator” is set about 150 years after Christ died.
To: Yo-Yo
Spoked wheels are much lighter but I would have to guess that they were extremely expensive. Solid wheels would have been much cheaper, and capable of carrying heavier loads as well.
I would assume the same thing, but I would also assume that solid wheels might become more expensive because when they break, the entire wheel is shot...When a spoke breaks, you just replace the spoke.
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posted on
12/10/2007 1:00:25 PM PST
by
Dean Baker
(Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts do.)
To: Yo-Yo
A spoked wheel requires a lathe to turn the spokes.
Its a helluva lot easier, but, ever seen one of these...
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posted on
12/10/2007 1:01:55 PM PST
by
chrisser
(Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between “conservation” and the neutron bomb.”- Mark Steyn)
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