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

Build your own collapsible spinning wheel for spinning your own cotton thread. ... After I shared my design for my 3D-printable charkha online, ...

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 ...

The flapper is missing, but the wheel spins. I found it in an antique store and the owner thought it might be from some game. It is metal, rather heavy, yet 8 inches in diameter and 6 ½ inches high.

A team of engineers at Singapore University of Technology and Design has created a truly unique robot—one that can roll around like a drum, then take off and fly like a spinning wheel. In their ...