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Potter's Wheel
Also Known As Potter's Lathe
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The rotating platform on which clay is centered and thrown into round vessels. One of the earliest machines to exploit rotary motion, it turned pottery from a coiled handcraft into a fast, precise trade, and centering clay on a spinning wheel head remains the defining skill every new potter must win.
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Introduced When (Circa)In use in Mesopotamia by the fourth millennium BC, with slower turntables earlier 1 OriginThe oldest known potter's wheel, from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture in western Ukraine, has been dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Potter's Wheel (Wikipedia)
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A potter's wheel in western Ukraine, from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, has been dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC, and is the oldest ever found
1. Potter's Wheel (Wikipedia)
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A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a 'potter's lathe'
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