Author: Stuart PiggottPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801416040
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Earliest Wheeled Transport
Author: Stuart PiggottPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801416040
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Earliest Wheeled Transport from the Atlantic Coast to the Caspalan Sea
Author: Stuart PigottThe Complete History of Wheeled Transportation
Author: Britannica Educational PublishingPublisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615307281
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
While the wheel itself has changed little over time, it has immeasurably altered the nature of transportation. This insightful volume examines the various wheeled conveyances that have been instrumental in agriculture and commercecarts and wagons, for instanceas well as those that have facilitated human travelcoaches, bicycles, cars, and buses, among others. Also explored is the evolution of roads, as they have expanded to accommodate various modes of wheeled transportation.
The Earliest Wheel Finds
Author: Hans J.J.G. HolmPublisher:
ISBN: 9786155766305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book investigates the oldest wheel finds (before ca. 2000 BCE) and their Indo-European terminology, especially in terms of onomasiological aspects. Recent lexicostatistical and glottochronological approaches to Indo-European phylogeny are compared, possible implications for the IE-Anatolian and Tocharian migrations are discussed, and a hypothe
The Beginnings of wheeled transport
Author: Stuart PiggottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The Wheel
Author: Richard W. BullietPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231173384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A visually rich, analytical history of the key cycles in a revolutionary technology.
Wheels
Author: Edwin TunisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781437971385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Traces the develop. of the wheel over 5,000 years. Begins with the first primitive form of wheel -- the captive roller -- Tunis takes readers through the history of land transport. from the Elamite chariot, to the wheeled vehicles of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Chinese, and Indians; the whirlicotes, carrosses, berlines, fiacres, and phaetons that traveled the roads of Europe; the Conestoga wagons, prairie schooners, and Concord coaches; the velocipede, and its successor, the penny-farthing bicycle; steam-powered wheeled carriages; Karl Benz¿s 1885 gasoline tricycle and the 1896 Ford quadricycle; the roadsters of the Jazz Age; and the chromed sedans of the 1950s. Boy¿s Club of America Gold Medal. Reprint of the 1955 edition.
The Wheel
Author: Richard W. BullietPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.
Selected Writings on Chariots and Other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness
Author: Mary Aiken LittauerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004117990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
This collection of papers is primarily concerned with wheeled transport in antiquity. They shed much light on the construction of the vehicles, the ways their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and on the uses to which the equipages were put. Ridden animals also feature in this collection of papers.
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
Author: Emmanuel AkyeampongPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.