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[Isambard]

Well, you have to thank the Chinese for the wheelbarrow:Zhuge Liang (181-234 A.D.) of China is considered to be the inventor of the wheelbarrow. Liang was a general who used the wheelbarrows to transport supplies & injured soldiers.

[old kodger]

Just think, maybe the invention of the wheel was an unfortunate fork in the road of human evolution. Had we not invented the wheel we may well have developed the ability to move things mentally...telekinesis, then there would be no wheelbarrow to steal.

[NortonDommi]

"This one reminds me of how Mesoamerican cultures lacked the wheel. Artifacts point to their use of wheels in childrens' toys, and as pottery wheels, but not for transport. One argument says that using wheels for transport also requires draft animals, which they lacked. They had independently developed written languages, and basic metalworking (gold and a little copper). But no wheelbarrows?"

Everybody knows they just levitated heavy stuff to where they wanted it.

[old kodger]

"Everybody knows they just levitated heavy stuff to where they wanted it."

Some mesopotamian inscriptions seem to indicate that that was the case
As nearly as I can remember and quote
"...and he struck the stone with his wand and if flew the length of an arrow's flight"
Who can tell what the "wand" was.

[Isambard]

A three wood?

[marksbug]

air float tables make it awefull eazy to move stuff, Im kinda supprized there are a lot of hoover crafts on the highways,byways&work sites& in general usage.oops hover crafts, the hoovers suck...must use a hoover for parking breaks.

[old kodger]

And of course the consideration has been made that the "ancients" didn't actually build all these monolithic edifices. We come back to the Ananaki having built them, insofar as they were considered to be gods, that may have given rise to the "religious malarkey". Thou shalt not speak of how this was done.

[Isambard]

Hasn't the Tartarian school of thought, superseded that theory nowadays?

[Toolmaker51]

In the California mining ghost towns, there are examples of old wheelbarrows. I'm sure it depended on what was being moved, but some had no sides, just front and floor. Too late to capitalize staking a plot to mine gold, a fellow [Wheelbarrow Johnny] did next best thing, and he built LOTS of them.
So many in fact.......... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Studebaker

Historically, the wheelbarrow seems a likely early material hauler. The problem might have been load size; small enough to lift in, an unstable one wheel cart. That may have turned out result of the American Indians' type travois. Both use same mechanical advantage of leverage.
Thinking details like rollers evolved into wheels, the hangup would be axles, without means to get some degree of round holes first. I'd bet rollers evolved with a reduced diameter forming an axle first. The earliest probable 'bearings' were notches or saddles, then figured out grease. But it would require fairly smooth surfaces to roll [what does a little pebble do to your floor jack?]. Narrowing it, might have been next. That may have progressed into wheels, after learning to keep them in position.
To me, the real brilliant step? Realization that increased wheel diameter was most effective way to traverse rough paths.

[marksbug]

unsung heroes of the past... they knew how to use the tools, that was pased down family to family by working to survive.no need to make a silent picture of them. but things like fictional stories....those had to be drawn out...and embellished upon untill it was no longer what it was.and thats what we have today.lots of fiction with very little reality&truth. the inscribed story was also up to interpretation, but the teller,the listener and the inscriber and finaly by all the people looking at it trying to figuire out what was said or trying to be said.. as they were also handed down generations with lots of embellishment. kinda like this one found on the wall of a car's dashbord remember what you see may not be what somebody else sees.and what you hear may not be what is said.