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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Fun Fact Friday! On this day in 1847, William Clayton invented the odometer. How do you measure your speed or distance?  reference: {link: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-odometers-4074178} Not So?! Which is my expression of unbelief for the information contained in the prompt. Odometer = measures distance speedometer = measures speed tachometer = rotation speed of the engine when it is turning over. Vitruvius attached his invention to a standard size chariot wheel in 15 B.C. It measured the distance of a Roman mile. There were 400 revolutions of the chariot wheel in a mile. Chang Heng also invented a gizmo to measure distance. (year not listed) Blaise Pascal invented a device to measure distance sometime in the 1600’s. His had gears and cogs. Thomas Savery invented a device to use on ships in 1698. It measured distance traveled. Ben Franklin invented a device to measure distance on postal routes around 1775. In 1847 an apparatus called a roadometer was designed by three men in a collaboration. William Clayton and Orson Pratt worked out the design. Appleton Milo Harrmon was the carpenter who built it. They were Mormons who used the contraption to measure distance traveled by wagon. In the 1800's, several men from different places worked on inventions that measured travel speed and distance. This just shows you mankind wants to know how far and how fast they have traveled. Quote: "I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream." Bruce Springsteen Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/distance.html ![Merit Badge in Blogging
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