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The Roadometer used two gears and was an early example of an odometer with pascaline-style gears in actual use. [12] In 1895, Curtis Hussey Veeder invented the Cyclometer. [13] [14] The Cyclometer was a mechanical device that counted the number of rotations of a bicycle wheel. [15]
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 ...
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 ...
In mathematics, a Markov odometer is a certain type of topological dynamical system. It plays a fundamental role in ergodic theory and especially in orbit theory of dynamical systems , since a theorem of H. Dye asserts that every ergodic nonsingular transformation is orbit-equivalent to a Markov odometer.
Odometer fraud, also referred to as "busting miles" (United States) or "clocking" (UK, Ireland and Canada), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Odometer fraud occurs when the seller of a vehicle falsely represents the actual mileage of a vehicle to the buyer.
An odometer for measuring distance was first described by Vitruvius around 27 and 23 BC, although the actual inventor may have been Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC). It was based on chariot wheels turning 400 times in one Roman mile. For each revolution a pin on the axle engaged a 400 tooth cogwheel, thus turning it one complete ...
Odometer may also refer to: Odometer fraud, the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Markov odometer, a certain type of dynamical system; Nonsingular odometer, a basic example of a Markov odometer
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.