WHEELBARROW

Updated 04-May-2020.

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How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow: For being such a seemingly ordinary vehicle, the wheelbarrow has a surprisingly exciting history. This is especially true in the East, where it became a universal means of transportation for both passengers and goods, even over long distances. The Chinese wheelbarrow – which was driven by human labour, beasts of burden and wind power – was of a different design than its European counterpart. By placing a large wheel in the middle of the vehicle instead of a smaller wheel in front, one could easily carry three to six times as much weight than if using a European wheelbarrow. The one-wheeled vehicle appeared around the time the extensive Ancient Chinese road infrastructure began to disintegrate. Instead of holding on to…

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: a wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel . it is designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear . the term “wheelb traditional Chinese wheelbarrows had a central wheel supporting the whole load . Typical capacity is approximately 100 litres (3.53 cubic feet) of material . use of one wheel permits greater control of the deposition of the the wheelbarrow did not, as is universally claimed, make its European debut in the Middle Ages . it was there some sixteen centuries before . evidence for the wheel-barrow in ancient farming and mining is absent . the 4th century Historia augusta reports emperor Elagabalus to have used a wheelbarrow to transport women in his frivolous games at court . the painted tomb mural of a man pushing the wheelb there are even earlier accounts that date back to the 1st century BC . the 5th-century Book of Later Han stated that the wife of the censor helped him push a lu che back to his village the first recorded description of a wheelbarrow appears in Liu Xiang’s work Lives of Famous Immortals . Liu describes the invention by the legendary Chinese mythological figure Ko Yu, who builds the more common type after the third century has a large, centrally mounted wheel . the central-wheeled wheelbarrow could generally transport six human passengers at once . it was given a considerable amount of attention by european interest in wheelbarrows in china is seen in van Braam Houckgeest’s 1797 book . van braam: “i see a fleet” of wheelbears of the same size . the research on the early history of the wheelbarrow is made difficult by the marked absence of a common terminology . the historian of technology M.J.T. the oldest wheelbarrows preserved from Central Europe were found in 2014 and 2017 during archaeological excavations in Ingolstadt, Germany. the Honda HPE60, an electric power-assisted wheelbarrow, was produced in 1998 . the technology has improved to enable them to take much heavier loads . a human could transport alone without assistance . motorized wheelbarrows are generally either diesel powered or electric battery powered. Often used in small scale construction applications where access for larger plant machinery might be restricted. 35, No. 3. (Jul., 1994), pp. Andrea L. Matthies, “The Medieval Wheelbarrow,” Technology and Culture, Vol. 32, No. 2, Part 1. (Apr., 1991), pp. 356–364 Needham, Joseph How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow, Low-Tech Magazine; rpr.