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Show Electrical Device- Check on 'Speeders' Down at Daytona Beach, Florida, a scheme has been adopted which will eventually prove a "tell-tale" of the guilty auto speeder, and there will be no "getting by" with the old1 story that "I was only going about 30 miles per" 'to tell the speed cop, according to the information just recently given out by the American Automobile association. as-sociation. The device is clever and no doubt will be adopted by all communities com-munities as an aid to speed driving and the slaughter of "innocents." The device was primarily arranged for testing automobile speed and worked eo cleverly that its adoption may be used nationally. The new discovery Is none other than an electrical tim--r, and it is described as follows: "Two heavy wires are stretched bout two inches above the surface cross the sand a mile apart. They re depressed as the car passes over. The first time is taken at the car bs-ins bs-ins the measured mile and again at he finish. In order to get the time for the kilometer, a third wire is stretched at the proper distance be-.wcen be-.wcen the start and the finish of the mile. As the car goes over the first v,r;r2 this impulse is transmitted to what is known as a trap, a device with a spring arrangement which causes a broken circuit in the electric elec-tric current which operates the timer. tim-er. This broken cotact is transmitted transmit-ted on up the wire to the time machine ma-chine in the official stand. In that instant that the circuit is broken a set of metal hammers is forced down on a ribbon much like that on a typewriter. type-writer. Underneath the ribbon is a paper tape and under this are the disks on whose perimeters are various numbers corresponding to the correct time on the chronometer, which is part of the timing device." |