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>Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 20:03:34 -0700
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>From: "Brian W. Kenny" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: roll back the odometer
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>http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/tech/9710TUARFM.html
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>Wagon Odometer Recreated NORTH PLATTE, NE–To help celebrate the 150th
>anniversary of the Mormon trek to Salt Lake City, Utah, Steve Pratt, a
>descendant of one of the travelers, has recreated a forgotten piece of
>technology–the first covered wagon odometer. The idea for the odometer is
>credited to William Clayton. He distrusted the then current method of
>calculating mileage– counting the turns of a wagon wheel and dividing by
>360–as being only as accurate as the designated counter was alert. Clayton
>enlisted wagon train carpenter Appleton Harmon to build a wood gearing
>mechanism that moved one tooth for each mile traveled. This year, Pratt
>built two replicas. Reenacting the journey, one will travel west with 30
>covered wagons and hand-pulled carts. The other can be seen at the Mormon
>Trail Visitors Center in Omaha, Nebraska. [photo]
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