The Odometer

It is also called milometer or trip meter. Especially very sportive active people will recognize this very useful thing. Almost everybody uses it when doing a tour with the bike. Depending on your goal, driving a number of kilometers as fast as you can or just to see how long the way from home to school or work is – the odometer, which counts the distance you covered, is more or less useful for the single person.

 But not only in sports and the daily bike life it’s a nice invention. Also in ships, GPS systems and cars it is used. You can’t even buy a car without. I don’t talk about the wheels, but the little machine that counts the meters you covered. It is hard to imagine a car without it. It is very important to know what a distance your car already drove! You can calculate your gas money, so it’s possible to drive in a more expensive or cheap way. And when you buy a car it is better if it has driven little kilometers. The fewer kilometers the better and mostly the younger is the car.

Nowadays the odometers are combined with much more technical and digital supplements but years ago in the time of their invention it was working more mechanical and evolved into electro-mechanical with the rise of technology over the years. It was possible to finally get to know how far a city is from another one.

They helped to build to bring time and way in a relation. It was widely used for indicating the distance traveled by a vehicle. It helped revolutionize the building of roads and traveling with it by accurately measuring distance and being able to carefully illustrate it with a milestone.

And? What do you think? Is this again a genius invention from the Greeks? The solution can be found on our webpage. Thank you for listening! 

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