While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...

These simple-looking spools are part of a larger tool – a spinning wheel – used to spin sheep, alpaca, rabbit and other natural fiber (more experienced folks can even spin dog and cat hair ...

Storing electricity in spinning wheels isn't new, but a new design may make it cheap enough to compete with other technologies. Skip to main content. Scientific American. April 10, 2013.