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Show Speedometer in Use Long Before "Autos" IXHl. wilb all the suhdiv isi,ms of ! qiirters; very pretty Bnd useful." What would Kveljn have said if he could have foreseen the pace the modern mod-ern speedometer has to register, when holiday makers race home mid tell the ' magistrate, a fevc days later, they : were doing 1'i miles an hoar? Contl- j ncntnl Falitlon. I-ondon Daily Mail. It may surprise (hose complacent people who lliiuk that everything tht counts was Invented within tiie lasi renlury, to hear that speedometers and they seem pretty modern devices were brought inlo use centuries ago Admittedly they did nol tell, by themselves, the rate at which you were taveling. but with a clock huns alongside ihem you could make n guess good enough for olden days, when speed limits and police traps were unknown. Kvelyn, In his diary, writes In PV'7: "1 went to see Colonel Riount, who showed me the application of the way wiser lo a couch, exactly measuring the miles and showing them by an In des as wt went on. It had three circles, cir-cles, one poinding to the number of rods, another to the miles. I,y 10 to |