Evolution of the wheel

First thoughts of the wheel

3500 BCE

Around 15,000-750,000 years ago in the palaeolithic era, early humans of that era thought that well rounded rocks could move faster by rolling them.

The first ever wheel

3200 BCE

Around 3200 BC, the first wheel was created in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and this is when wheels were used on chariots.

The first ever wheel rims

1000 BCE

The first ever wheel rim was made in 100B BC. It takes some time before more advancements come to the wheel

FIrst wire tension

Sep 30, 1802

In 1802, a man named G.F Bauer created the first wire tension to the wheel.

First ever tire

Oct 4, 1888

Around 1888, a man named Robert W. Thomson, a scottish engineer, created the first ever tire.