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On 10/7/2011 7:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
The odometer pictured at
<http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/odometer> .
is shown as an odometer but has a clock face. I am intrigued how it
showed distance unless you were travelling at a predetermined speed -
but this is not my question.
I would point out that the online image for this odometer is a poor one.
Its face is much more complex than the Roman numerals arranged like a
standard clock, and could measure distances in chains, links, poles and
miles. I do not think it required traveling at a fixed speed, but there
is some more detailed discussion of Jefferson and his interest in
odometers in Bedini's _Thomas Jefferson Statesman of Science_ (NY:
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1990). As to the main initial question, there
is no mention of any gifted odometer coming from Franklin.
Joel Kovarsky
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