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Who Invented The Wheel?

The invention of the wheel is often cited as one of the greatest, if not the greatest intellectua...

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15.56 11 Sep 2020


Who Invented The Wheel?


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15.56 11 Sep 2020


The invention of the wheel is often cited as one of the greatest, if not the greatest intellectual achievement in human history.

That would make it’s inventor one of our great geniuses.

But we can never really know who he or she was.

Or can we?

Cody Cassidy is the Author of Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History.


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