Timeline for In a society of flying beings, would the wheel ever be invented?
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| Jan 25, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | @celtschk While there is no evidence of wheeled vehicles, there are quite a few wheeled toys that have been found dating to pre-columbian South America. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:04 | comment | added | dawyda254 | I also think the most use for wheels in such a society would be transportation. | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 12:04 | comment | added | Dennis | Just because the beings can fly does not mean they cannot pull/push a cart forward (either whilst flying or walking). Tameable animals are not required for this. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 19:27 | comment | added | user_1818839 | You can easily move heavy weights without the wheel. Water is another good way of lowering friction, and in a lot of places, removes the need for road building. For a couple of centuries, it was efficient enough to be worth digging a network of artificial waterways - canals - to extend the land area reachable by water transport. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 20:27 | vote | accept | SQB | ||
| Oct 2, 2014 at 20:44 | comment | added | Vulcronos | @Dancrumb Its a comba. Mountains and jungles slow travel down and lessen the benefit of a wheel. Without herd animals to do the work for you, it isn't worth building roads and clearing the area out. In my opinion it is a double whammy. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 20:37 | comment | added | Dancrumb | Is the absence of the wheel in the early SA cultures not related to the mountainous nature of the region? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | Vulcronos | @celtschk I am aware. That is why I mentioned that if there is no animal you can use to pull wheeled contraptions, the incentive to inventing the wheel is much less. But I feel the more a society expands into different physical environments and grows technologically the more likely the wheel is. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 7:18 | comment | added | celtschk | Note, however, that the early South-American cultures did not invent the wheel. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 19:38 | history | answered | Vulcronos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |