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Roadometer may mean:
Roadometer (odometer), an
early device like an
odometer for
measuring mileage,
towed by a wagon,
invented in 1847, by
William Clayton...
- The
roadometer was a 19th-century
device like an
odometer for
measuring mileage,
mounted on a
wagon wheel. One such
device was
invented in 1847 by William...
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overland trek to the Salt Lake Valley,
where he
collaborated to
devise a
roadometer to
measure distances for his The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide....
- the
Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
first implemented the
Roadometer they had
invented earlier (a
version of the
modern odometer),
which they...
- A.E. Lewis, who said that the
distance given was
taken by his
English roadometer which was
attached to the
front wheel of his
buggy which he used to travel...
- and
Appleton Harmon, a carpenter, to
create a wagon-wheel odometer, or
roadometer. It
showed that the
company averaged between fourteen and
twenty miles...
- A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851. Road
distances from
readings of a
roadometer attached to the
wagon of
Addison Pratt of the 1849
Jefferson Hunt Wagon...
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efficiency and
accuracy of
logging the
daily mileage. The use of this "
Roadometer" was the key to the
accuracy of the emigrant's
guide later published by...
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mechanism "counting" the
revolutions of the wheel. The apparatus,
called the "
roadometer", was
built by
carpenter Appleton Milo Harmon, and was
first used on the...
- and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851. Road
distances from
readings of
roadometer attached to the
wagon of
Addison Pratt of the 1849
Jefferson Hunt Wagon...
