Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...
Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...
The notice reads: "On your Porsche, there is a possibility that the wheel attachments using the central lock do not meet the required specifications. "This can lead to damage or even breakage of ...
While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...
In this video, we test how fast you can rotate a Lego wheel and tire using a Lego motor and gearing. Watch as we push the limits of speed with different gear setups to see how fast the wheel can spin.
To test if these hole-y rocks were the wheel deal, scientists built replicas of the artifacts and then gave them a “whorl” by spinning flax with them. In doing so, they proved that these ...