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  2. Odometer - Wikipedia

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    The odometer was also independently invented in ancient China, [3] possibly by the prolific inventor and early scientist Zhang Heng (78 AD – 139 AD) of the Han dynasty. By the 3rd century (during the Three Kingdoms Period), the Chinese had termed the device as the 'jì lĭ gŭ chē' (記里鼓車), or ' li -recording drum carriage' (Note: the ...

  3. Roadometer (odometer) - Wikipedia

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    A machine commonly displayed as Clayton's odometer is actually one built in 1876 by Thomas G. Lowe. Lowe created his odometer to calculate the distance between villages in northern Arizona. He gave his odometer to the Deseret Museum in Salt Lake City, and it was on display with accurate information from 1876 until it closed for a period in 1903 ...

  4. List of Greek inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Odometer: Odometer, a device used in the late Hellenistic time and by Romans for indicating the distance travelled by a vehicle. It was invented sometime in the 3rd century BC. Some historians attribute it to Archimedes, others to Heron of Alexandria.

  5. Ancient Greek technology - Wikipedia

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    Odometer: c. 3rd century BC Odometer, a device used in the late Hellenistic time and by Romans for indicating the distance traveled by a vehicle. It was invented sometime in the 3rd century BC. Some historians attribute it to Archimedes, others to Heron of Alexandria.

  6. Victims 'mugged off' by vehicle-clocking criminals - AOL

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    The odometer is the device which measures the distance travelled by the vehicle. ... Kent County Council's barrister said the value of the fraud based on the profit made from the sale of these ...

  7. William Clayton (Latter Day Saint) - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-mounted odometer helped Clayton measure accurate distances between landmarks, starting from Council Bluffs [37] and going to the Great Salt Lake. After returning to Winter Quarters, Clayton prepared and published The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide. [38]

  8. Surveyor's wheel - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the surveyor's wheel are connected to the origins of the odometer. While the latter is derived to measure distances travelled by a vehicle, the former is specialized to measure distances. In the 17th century, the surveyor's wheel was re-introduced and used to measure distances.

  9. Odometry - Wikipedia

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    Five digit odometer of a Citroën Acadiane, 1986. Odometry is the use of data from motion sensors to estimate change in position over time. It is used in robotics by some legged or wheeled robots to estimate their position relative to a starting location. This method is sensitive to errors due to the integration of velocity measurements over ...