Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel

Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Steven Vogel

344 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative lighthearted medium-paced
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There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates--be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel--a rotational mechanism that accomplishes ...

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