A study published by a multidisciplinary team of researchers proposes that the wheel originated in Neolithic mines of the Carpathian Mountains around 3900 B.C. The study, based on computational mechanical analysis, outlines a three-phase technological evolution of the wheel from free rollers to fixed-axle wheel design.
A new study suggests that the wheel may have been invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains around 3900 B.C., using techniques from structural mechanics to trace the evolution of the wheel and axle.
