Garfield County News | 1929-02-08 | Page 8 | Speedometer in Use Long before "Autos"

speedometer in use long lone before autos it may surprise those complacent people who thank th that everything that counts was invented within the last century to hear that speedometers and they seem pretty modern devices were brought into use centuries ago admittedly they did not tell by themselves tho rate rat 0 at which you were tavell ng but with a clock hung alongside them you could make a guess good enough for olden days when speed limits and police traps were unknown evelyn in his diary writes in 1057 1657 1 I went to see colonel blount who showed we me the application of the wiser to a coach exactly measuring the miles and showing them by an index as wo we went on it had three circles one pointing polli ting to the number of rods another to the miles by 10 to 1000 with all the subdivisions of quarters very pretty and useful what would evelyn have said if he could have foreseen the pace the modern speedometer has to rei register lster when holiday makers race home and tell the magistrate a few days later they were doing miles an hour continental edition london dally daily mall mail 0