Water Wheel: the whole path

  1. 1
    Tools & MakingI

    Stone Tools

    The first cutting edge

    3.3 Mya

  2. 2
  3. 3
    Materials & ChemistryII

    Pottery

    Clay turned to stone by fire

    18,000 years ago

    needs 2

  4. 4
    Materials & ChemistryII

    Charcoal

    Wood cooked slowly under earth

    c. 4,500 BCE

    needs 1, 2

  5. 5
    Land TransportII

    Wheel & Axle

    Rolling instead of dragging

    c. 3,500 BCE

    needs 1

  6. 6
    Materials & ChemistryIII

    Bronze

    Copper and tin, harder together

    c. 3,300 BCE

    needs 2, 3, 4

  7. 7
    MechanicsIII

    Gears

    Teeth that trade speed for force

    c. 300 BCE

    needs 6

  8. 8
    Energy & Prime MoversIII

    Water Wheel

    A river turned into work

    c. 300 BCE

    Goal · needs 5, 7


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