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The properties of the lever, the wheel-and-axle, etc., are recognised in every machine, and to machinery in these times we owe all production.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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It's not entirely clear whether this was a violent invasion or a more subtle VHS-is-better-than-Betamax cultural shift, but it does seem to coincide, notably, with the invention of the wheel-and-axle combination that made it feasible to build load-bearing vehicles such as carts, and the domestication of horses to pull them.
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