Man's first real inventionand one of the most important inventions in history, (1)_____________________. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all invention. Because there are no wheels in nature--no living things was ever created with wheel How,then,did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that (2)_________________________________________. However,the logs themselves weighed a lost. It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices on log connected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.