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Spoke, the Glossary

A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.^[1]

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2nd-millennium BC introductions
Horse-drawn vehicle parts
Sintashta culture
Wheels

Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Aliwal North

Maletswai (previously Aliwal North) is a town in central South Africa on the banks of the Orange River, Eastern Cape Province.

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Aramid

Aramid fibers, short for aromatic polyamide, are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers.

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Artillery wheel

The artillery wheel was a nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century style of wagon, gun carriage, and automobile wheel. Spoke and artillery wheel are horse-drawn vehicle parts and wheels.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Axle

An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.

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Bicycle

A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.

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Bicycle wheel

A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for a bicycle. Spoke and bicycle wheel are bicycle parts and wheels.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Carriage

A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Chariot

A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. Spoke and chariot are 2nd-millennium BC introductions and Sintashta culture.

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Chogha Zanbil

Chogha Zanbil (also Tchoga Zanbil and Čoġā Zanbīl) (چغازنبيل; Elamite: Al Untas Napirisa then later Dur Untash) is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran.

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Chrome plating

Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating) is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object.

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Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.

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Cogset

On a bicycle, the cassette or cluster is the set of multiple sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel.

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Compression (physics)

In mechanics, compression is the application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different points on a material or structure, that is, forces with no net sum or torque directed so as to reduce its size in one or more directions.

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Cuboid

In geometry, a cuboid is a quadrilateral-faced convex hexahedron, a polyhedron with six faces.

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Derailleur

Shimano 600 front derailleur (1980) A derailleur is a variable-ratio bicycle gearing system consisting of a chain, multiple sprockets of different sizes, and a mechanism to move the chain from one sprocket to another.

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Disc brake

A disc brake is a type of brake that uses the calipers to squeeze pairs of pads against a disc or a rotor to create friction.

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Flange

A flange is a protruded ridge, lip or rim, either external or internal, that serves to increase strength (as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam); for easy attachment/transfer of contact force with another object (as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera); or for stabilizing and guiding the movements of a machine or its parts (as the inside flange of a rail car or tram wheel, which keep the wheels from running off the rails).

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Galvanization

Galvanization or galvanizing (also spelled galvanisation or galvanising) is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.

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Geography of Greece

Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Kilogram-force

The kilogram-force (kgf or kgF), or kilopond (kp, from lit), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force.

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Law of cosines

In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Motorcycle

A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or, if three-wheeled, a trike) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar from a saddle-style seat.

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Newton (unit)

The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Pound (force)

The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system.

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Pythagorean theorem

In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.

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Radius

In classical geometry, a radius (radii or radiuses) of a circle or sphere is any of the line segments from its center to its perimeter, and in more modern usage, it is also their length.

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Sintashta culture

The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Southern Urals, dated to the period 2200–1900 BCE.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Space diagonal

In geometry, a space diagonal (also interior diagonal or body diagonal) of a polyhedron is a line connecting two vertices that are not on the same face.

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Sparta

Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

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Spoke nipple

A spoke nipple holds a bicycle wheel's rim to each spoke.

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Spoke wrench

A spoke wrench or spoke key is a small wrench or tool used to adjust the tension in the spokes of a tension-spoked wheel.

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Spokeshave

A spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows.

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Sports car

A sports car is a type of car that is designed with an emphasis on dynamic performance, such as handling, acceleration, top speed, the thrill of driving, and racing capability.

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Stainless steel

Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.

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Tangent

In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Tension (physics)

Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object.

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Tire

A tire (North American English) or tyre (Commonwealth English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels.

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A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.

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Wagon

A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.

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Wheel

A wheel is a rotating component (typically circular in shape) that is intended to turn on an axle bearing. Spoke and wheel are wheels.

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Wheelbuilding

Wheelbuilding is the process of assembling wire wheels (generally a bicycle wheel, but including wheelchairs, and some cars).

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Wheelchair

A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest and armrest usually cushioned.

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Wheelwright

A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. Spoke and wheelwright are horse-drawn vehicle parts and wheels.

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Wire gauge

Wire gauge is a measurement of wire diameter.

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Wire wheel

Wire wheels, wire-spoked wheels, tension-spoked wheels, or "suspension" wheels are wheels whose rims connect to their hubs by wire spokes. Spoke and wire wheel are wheels.

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Wood splitting

Wood splitting (riving,"Riving" def. 1.b. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 cleaving) is an ancient technique used in carpentry to make lumber for making wooden objects, some basket weaving, and to make firewood.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoke

Also known as Spoked wheel, Spokes.

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See also

2nd-millennium BC introductions

Horse-drawn vehicle parts

Sintashta culture

Wheels

References