Author: ezradharris
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Spread and Adoption of the Wheelbarrows – History of Inventions – Lesson 31
The most common type of wheelbarrow used today by China is a type of wheelbarrow where the wheel is in the middle of the wheelbarrow. Here is a picture of that: The center wheel design is also used for carrying people around on it, and it could hold up to six people on it! Some…
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Wheelbarrow – History of Inventions – Lesson 31
A wheelbarrow is a tool used for agriculture, and construction, it is meant for moving sand bricks weeds, etc. It benefited the workers because you wouldn’t have to use a horse to pull a carriage to transport materials if it is a short distance. After all, it would take to long to hitch up a…
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Sailing Before the Compass – History of Inventions – lesson 29
Before the compass, many people had to rely on landmarks for sailing. The Polynesians sailed around there own area by using the stars to tell them where they were, and they also used waves to tell where land is because the waves get affected by the islands. The Europeans used landmarks, the stars, and the…
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Mustard
I watch a youtube channel called Mustard. Mustard is a channel that makes history videos about different inventions. In most of the videos I watched, he talked about aircraft. for example, in the most recent one, he explained the history of giant flying boats. It is called: what happened to giant flying ships? That video…