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History of Wheel of Fortune. The time we heard the name Wheel of Fortune on the television landscape was not the Wheel of Fortune we all know and love. It was actually started in October 1952, and ran for nearly a year. To be eligibile for this show, you had to have done a good deed. The good-doers and the people they helped appeared on the show.
Click here for audio of Episode 1254. Today, another look at the invention of the wheel. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. It's fairly common knowledge that the wheel was invented around 5500 years ago. But what was really invented at that time? V. Gordon Childe offers an interesting slant on the question. What we should be looking at, he says, is not the wheel itself, but rather the use of rotary motion.