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Show Made Autos Register Disgust with routine work Is a fertile fer-tile mother of Inventions. A part of the Job of C. B, McFarlnhd, forest ranger In the Cascade National forest, In Oregon, was to keep track of the number of automobiles that traversed the government roads. It was tiresome work, and mechanical. So Mr. McFar-land McFar-land invented a machine to do It. The traffic counter, as he culls his device, la a small platform resting upon springs, burled flush with the track In a nurrow place In the road. It Is connected con-nected by levers to a counting machine ma-chine on a post. Each car depresses the platform about one-half Inch, enough to work the counting machine but not enough to Jolt the car. |
