The History Of The Treadmill

I have a love-hate relationship with my treadmill.  No, actually it's all hate. Running on it makes me look and feel like some red, sweaty turnspit dog. The fact that treadmills were made to exploit and torture prisoners into providing labor to power mills comes as no surprise to me.

Conor Heffernan and Yukai Du team up for Ted-Ed to tell the history of this torture device.



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