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One wheel, two handles, and the reason ancient empires didn't throw their backs out.
means A small hand-propelled cart with a single wheel at the front and two handles at the back, used for carrying loads.
from A plain compound of "wheel" and "barrow," both Old English. The "barrow" half comes from Old English "bearwe," a frame or stretcher for carrying, tied to "beran," to bear or carry — a cousin of "bear" the verb. So a wheelbarrow is literally a carrying-frame that gained a wheel: the lifting work handed off to a rolling circle.
- chinese origin
- Invented in China around 100 AD, kept military secret
- poem fame
- William Carlos Williams made one immortal in 16 words
- lever logic
- Single front wheel multiplies your lifting power
- battlefield use
- Han armies hauled supplies on wheelbarrows for centuries
- name truth
- Barrow comes from old English for carrying, not the wheel
for instance
james hill's world record — pushed a wheelbarrow 3,600 miles across australia in 1989