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On this day in 1906, Charles Oscar Ericson was granted U.S. Patent No. 814,905 for a SPEED INDICATOR.
This invention relates to improvements in speed-indicators for wheeled vehicles, and more particularly to recording speed-indicators.
The object of this invention is to produce a very simple apparatus which can be easily attached to an automobile, wagon, car, or other wheeled vehicle and which will act easily and accurately to indicate the speed at which the vehicle is traveling, and, further, to construct and arrange the apparatus so that a record can be kept of the speed of the vehicle during a period of time.
This invention is further intended to make the apparatus simple and positive and to construct it so that it can be easily-attached to an ordinary vehicle and connected with the rotating arts thereof.
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