What came first?
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MK4 Slowride said:
The wheel or a boat? Considering that a boat will use pulley wheels for the rigging etc then surely the wheel but then how big does a round thing have to be before it's a wheel?
You're over-defining 'boat'. The simplest boat is a dug-out canoe; after that the coracle and canoe. None need pulleys.Early rigging didn't use pulleys, it used blocks.
A block is a piece of wood with a shaped hole in it.
The friction is much greater than a pulley and the pulley evolved from the blocks.
The wheel is predated by the roller. Sticking a log under something was probably the beginning and the wheel evolved from there.
The answer to your original question is likely to depend on how you define boat and wheel's.
A block is a piece of wood with a shaped hole in it.
The friction is much greater than a pulley and the pulley evolved from the blocks.
The wheel is predated by the roller. Sticking a log under something was probably the beginning and the wheel evolved from there.
The answer to your original question is likely to depend on how you define boat and wheel's.
what do you mean by wheel? or boat?
by wheel do you mean a purpose made disc running on an axle, or do you mean just something round like rollers?
by boat do you mean any contraption that can be used to cross water?
thinking about it, either wy it is likely to be a watercraft- polynesians and micronesians have crossed vast continents of water of many thousands of years- look at the kon tiki for example. The necessity for wheels only really came about with a nomadic lifestyle or a developed civilisation.
by wheel do you mean a purpose made disc running on an axle, or do you mean just something round like rollers?
by boat do you mean any contraption that can be used to cross water?
thinking about it, either wy it is likely to be a watercraft- polynesians and micronesians have crossed vast continents of water of many thousands of years- look at the kon tiki for example. The necessity for wheels only really came about with a nomadic lifestyle or a developed civilisation.
Simpo Two said:
MK4 Slowride said:
The wheel or a boat? Considering that a boat will use pulley wheels for the rigging etc then surely the wheel but then how big does a round thing have to be before it's a wheel?
You're over-defining 'boat'. The simplest boat is a dug-out canoe; after that the coracle and canoe. None need pulleys.Unless one of his mates nicked his log to use it as a roller...
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