The first wheel ever conceived was made out of solid rock.
A huge block of stone was carved
until all its edges were sufficiently rounded as so to become able to roll continuously over a terrain. From that primitive wheel, going through the artisanal wooden wheels with metal joints, the industrial ones invented at the end of the XIX century covered with rubber tyres, up to contemporary ones, still industrially produced, with aluminum alloy hubs wrapped around air cushioned rubber tyres found in every street holding every car, only one thing has changed: compressed air. Even though all wheels have a circular shape and all wheels incorporate bigger or fines negative spaces, or voids, in order to decrease its weight and optimize the amount of required material to transmit dynamic loads (at least in retrospect), it was with the invention of rubber that the wheel incorporated air as a structural material exerting from within an outward force to the walls of the