The Wheel Is 5,000 Years Old. The Car Is Only 140.

The wheel is more than 5,000 years old. The car is about 140. For fifty centuries, humanity had the wheel and kept walking right next to it. So what took so long? The wheel was never the hard part. It needed a road, an engine, a fuel, a reason and a price, and each one took its time to arrive. This is the story of how they finally came together, from a wooden wheel pulled out of a Slovenian swamp to a moving assembly line in Michigan. What you'll see: When the camel beat the wheel: why a large part of the world gave up on wheeled transport for centuries. The man with the red flag: the British law that kept early road vehicles at walking pace for thirty years. The first road trip: how Bertha Benz drove 106 km with a hat pin, a garter and fuel bought at a pharmacy. The crank that broke wrists: why electric cars were a serious rival in 1900, and what changed in 1912. From 825 to 260 dollars: how Ford's moving assembly line turned the car into something ordinary people could own. If you got into a car, a bus or a taxi this morning, you used every one of those pieces without thinking about it. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:49 The oldest wheel ever found 1:46 Roman roads and the camel 2:52 Cugnot's steam wagon and the Red Flag Act 4:03 Karl Benz and the first car 4:54 Bertha Benz's road trip 6:33 The first speeding ticket 7:14 A city full of horses 7:58 Electric cars and the crank 8:43 Henry Ford and the Model T 9:32 Back to this morning #History #Inventions #Cars