Motorcycle chariot races, 1936. https://t.co/2MvA15zZNA
In the year 1800 wooden vehicles pulled by animals were the most advanced form of land-based transport on the planet and had been for more than five millennia. Admittedly, nineteenth-century coaches had features that the earliest wagons had lacked, such as metal-rimmed and spoked wheels, steering, steel-spring suspension, and glass windows. But the
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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web.devA chariot is a two-wheeled vehicle with spoked wheels and a standing driver, pulled by bitted horses, and usually driven at a gallop. A two-wheeler with solid wheels or a seated driver is a cart, not a chariot. Carts, like wagons, were work vehicles. Chariots were the first wheeled vehicles designed for speed, an innovation that changed land transp
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
