How the Roman Empire Invented the Odometer
This educational animation illustrates the mechanical design of the ancient Roman odometer. The device utilized a clever system of gears to track distance traveled. As the cart moved, a small wheel with a single tooth would advance a larger wheel with 400 teeth by one position for every rotation. This mechanism was designed to release a small stone into a metal bucket once the cart had traveled a specific distance, such as 5,000 feet, allowing the user to keep a physical count of the total distance covered during a journey.
And what happened after 500 miles?
I'm going to need you to delete this it makes the mile sound too respectable if you reveal to europeans that its older and more sovlful than the meter
Cool if true
Did they steal that from Africa?
And walking 14 roman miles results in the loss of 1 imperial pound which is what caused 1 stone to drop. This is why the British call loosing 14lbs 1 stone. This is also why the British consider "stone" part of the metric system It's true because you read it on the internet
Apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Clever system of gears you say
Yet they called it the odoMETER and not the odoMILE
And some used cart salesman was putting the stones from the bucket back into the wheel so he could charge more money
Milestone, got it