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Show Made Autos Register Disgust with routine work is a fertile fer-tile mother of invent ions. A part o" tlie job of C. H. McFarland, fores! 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. McFarland McFar-land invented a machine to do it. The traffic counter, as he calls his device Is a small platform resting upor springs, buried flush with the track ii a narrow place in the road. It is connected con-nected by levers to a counting machine ma-chine on a post. Each car depresso.-the depresso.-the platform about one-half inch, enough to work the counting machine but not enough to jolt the ear. |