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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 Clayton, Orson Pratt, and Appleton Harmon, pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Colorni's carriage with odometer, from Euthimetria, Herzog August Library [8] A Hubodometer on a wheel of a semitrailer A Smiths speedometer from the 1920s showing odometer and trip meter Odometers were first developed in the 1600s for wagons and other horse-drawn vehicles in order to measure distances traveled.
The surveyor's wheel is marked in fractional increments of revolution from a reference position. Thus its current position can be represented as a fraction of a revolution from this reference. If the wheel rotated a full turn (360 angular degrees), the distance traveled would be equal to the circumference of the wheel. Otherwise, the distance ...
Clayton, along with Orson Pratt and Appleton Milo Harmon, created a novel design for a wooden odometer for use on wagons, also called a roadometer. [35]: 86–90 Clayton was assigned to record the number of miles the company traveled each day. One day, Clayton personally counted the revolutions of a wagon wheel and computed the day's distance ...
He collaborated with Orson Pratt and Appleton Harmon to create a wagon-wheel odometer, or roadometer, to record distances more accurately. [ 4 ] : 229–231, 243 They were the first pioneers to scientifically measure the distances on the overland trail.
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Roadometer (odometer), an early device like an odometer for measuring mileage, towed by a wagon, invented in 1847, by William Clayton, a Mormon pioneer. A type of Drivotrainer, one of these was called a Roadometer
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