The Revolutionary Invention of the Wheel

The image shows a cartoon of a caveman standing next to a stone-age car, with an elephant in the background. The overlaid text is a newspaper column by Cecil Adams titled 'Why did the peoples of the New World fail to invent the wheel?' which humorously explains the lack of wheels in ancient American civilizations, attributing it to factors like the absence of draft animals and the invention of the wheel being 'a dope' who didn't patent it. The column also mentions the ancient Mexicans as the only exception, whose wheel use was limited to toys or cult objects.

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