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- Speedometer, circa 1911 - Speedometers were optional equipment for early automobiles. Motorists however found them useful and during the 1910s speedometers became standard on many vehicles. The instrument calculated a vehicle's speed, and with an accompanying odometer let drivers know how far they had traveled. Stewart and Clark, a leading manufacturer of speedometers at the time, made this circa 1911 model.
- circa 1911
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Speedometer, circa 1911
Speedometers were optional equipment for early automobiles. Motorists however found them useful and during the 1910s speedometers became standard on many vehicles. The instrument calculated a vehicle's speed, and with an accompanying odometer let drivers know how far they had traveled. Stewart and Clark, a leading manufacturer of speedometers at the time, made this circa 1911 model.