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TechStuff Classic: The Six Simple Machines

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The Wheel and Axis

The wheel and axle was invented sometime around 35 hundred b c. The earliest evidence actually comes from 32 hundred from sumerian artifacts. And also, it appears to have been independently invented in china around 28 hundred b c., not shared from the sumerians but different people came up with the same idea.

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