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History on Rims & Wheels
Wheels are actually pretty important; they have come a long way from representing something in certain cultures, to being on cars that we use everyday.
If you were to ask people what they thought about a wheel in general, the first thing they'd probably say would be, "Like the ones that come on your car?" For the most part, it is; but it had served so many different purposes before then. During the 5th Millennium BC in Mesopotamia, its purpose was to help potter's make their... well, pots. It wasn't until about 3500-3350 BC that they had finally used it for the Bronocice pot (the very first pot that was recorded to be a "wheeled vehicle"); it was made by making a large hole in the middle of the clay pot then rotating it on it's side.
This "fad" reached Europe & Western Asia first, then the Indus Valley, then finally China. So, even though the wheel wasn't "fully developed"-but yet reaching different places of the world-the cultures from the Western Hemisphere had already approached this idea, but with stones that were round & found on children's toys from 1500 BC. Even though all of this was advancing, scientists do think that Nubians were ahead of all this because they had been using wheels for spinning pottery, waterwheels, & chariots that were driven by horses that were imported from Egypt.
The innovation of the wheel falls under the "New Stone Age" era & may be linked to other inventions that were created in the Bronze Age. If you happen to think about it, people just like us were walking everywhere & carrying everything with their bare hands; how unorthodox, huh? When people finally started using horses to transport themselves & other materials, that's when they realized how strong & how useful the wheel can be. Since wheels usually need smooth surfaces to function properly, & back then everything was transferred on uneven surfaces, this actually delayed the usage of the wheel because without even surfaces, how is the wheel going to work without cracking?
Some of the first wheels made were made out of wood that included a hole for the axle; but since the wheels would be carved thinly & it didn't have enough structural durability to carry heavy loads, they had to carve out long pieces of wood to carry the actual material that they had to move around & set it on top of the wheels.
They finally came to an agreement & decided to include spokes on the wheel which allowed the wheel to support the vehicle more. When this was invented, the horse cultures of the European & Asian region were seen using war carriages that were supported by spoked wooden wheels. This trend eventually reached Greece, but was used for a different purpose. Horse carriages were being used to show respect & high honor to people in Athens & Sparta. The European people saw this design & decided to put an iron rim around it to make it "stronger". The spoked wheel didn't really have any major changes until about the 1870s when the wire wheel & tire was introduced.
So I guess you can conclude that many people have been trying & trying to improve wheels ever since they were first discovered & manufactured. They've come a long way: from being used for pottery hobbies to being on all cars that we use today; & from being made out of flimsy wood to being made from the strongest material that we can find today: Aluminum & Steel. Today, we have so many nice wheels like the Mercedes E-Class Wheels & the Honda S2000 Rims that you would have never thought they needed anything like that back then. We're almost spoiled, don't you think?
About the Author
Mykalanne has been working for OriginalWheels.com for a little over a year. She has been writing their blog & articles for a while; & to be quite frank, she really enjoys it. It gives her a chance to communicate with the customers & tell everyone what the company is really about.
should i be worried if i wire wheeled old rims that had lead in the paint i did it for 2 days in a little shed?
could anything happen to me in the future or could i be fine
You should be fine.
Just eat a lot of peanut butter for a while. Yeah it sounds a bit funny but eating peanut butter has been shown to reduce lead levels in children.
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