What's Technology?
It didn't take long to find that wheeled wagons could be used to hold heavy masses. The historical Sumerians used the potter's wheel and may have invented it. A stone pottery wheel found in the city-state of Ur dates to round 3429 BCE, and even older fragments of wheel-thrown pottery have been present in the identical area. Fast potters' wheels enabled early mass manufacturing of pottery, but it was the usage of the wheel as a transformer of power that revolutionized the appliance of nonhuman power sources. The first two-wheeled carts have been derived from travois and had been first utilized in Mesopotamia and Iran in around 3000 BCE. The use of tools by early people was partly a strategy of discovery and of evolution. Recent advances in medical technology have saved countless lives. Over the final 10 years has created a wholly new world in which viruses can replicate. While in 1989, viruses were primarily spread by "sneakernet," as users walked diskettes fro...