Short Stories
of Science and Invention

A Collection of Radio Talks by
Charles F. Kettering

INDEX

14.   The Turning Wheel
     

Landing Gear     If we are still finding ways and means of improving an invention made over 4,000 years ago, we must realize the tremendous field that lies ahead in improving more recent in­ventions. And what is still more im­portant, think of the opportunities in the field of principles yet undis­covered. Although man may be very dependent upon this invention, the fact remains that Nature found other means of travel, because the animals, the fish and the birds have been mov­ing on the land, and in the water and air for millions of years. Yet, in all of her myriad of living creatures, Nature has never used our very nec­essary principle of the wheel.  


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