Milford News | 1929-04-12 | Page 7 | Speedometer in use Long before "Autos"

Speedometer in Use Long Before "Autos" It may surprise those complacent people who think 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, the rate at which you were taveling, 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 djary, writes ln 1657 : "I went to see Colonel Blount, who showed me the application of the way-wiser way-wiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles and showing them by an Index In-dex as we went on. It had three circles, cir-cles, one pointing to the number of rods, another to the miles, by 10 to 1,000, with all the subdhisions of qivarters; very pretty and useful." What would Evelyn have said if he could have foreseen the pace the modern mod-ern speedometer has to register, when holiday makers race home and tell the magistrate, a few days later, they were doing 15 miles an hour? Continental Conti-nental Edition, London Daily Mail.