Explorations: Iron Horse: Importance of the wheel

Duration: 1 min 30 secs
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Description: Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Alan Macfarlane describes the importance of the wheel and what it can do for humans. Yet civilizations sometimes give up using this special tool.

 
Created: 2018-03-08 16:30
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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