In an underwater society, would the wheel ever be invented?

In a different question, someone mentioned "technology dichotomy", where they said "you can't invent time travel without first inventing the wheel". Then I read the question In a society of flying beings, would the wheel ever be invented? and they gave remarks about how the wheel probably still would be invented by a flying society because you still need to transport goods.

Then I considered that in an underwater society, it's unlikely that they would invent something designed for smoother travel across the ground. I mean, they can swim, and it's relatively easy to balance something to be carried under water using air.

Would an underwater society ever invent a wheel? I'm curious both about sea floor societies and about societies near the surface.

Note: I am talking about wheels as in "something round or mostly round that rotates along a surface for purposes of mobility". A propeller, a cog or another mostly round rotating object is not a wheel in this context. What is a wheel is anything you might see on a car, a bicycle or even the rock barrels of the Flintstone Mobile.

posted about 7 years ago

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