PEDOMETER

, or Podometer, foot-measurer, or way-wiser; a mechanical instrument, in form of a watch, and consisting of various wheels and teeth; which, by means of a chain, or string, fastened to a man's foot, or to the wheel of a chariot, advance a notch each step, or each revolution of the wheel: by which it numbers the paces or revolutions, and so the distance from one place to another.

Pedometer is also sometimes used for the common surveying wheel, an instrument chiefly used in measuring roads; popularly called the way-wiser. See Perambulator.

· ·

A B C D E F G H K L M N O P Q R S T W X Y Z A B C E G L M N

Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

This text has been generated using commercial OCR software, and there are still many problems; it is slowly getting better over time. Please don't reuse the content (e.g. do not post to wikipedia) without asking liam at holoweb dot net first (mention the colour of your socks in the mail), because I am still working on fixing errors. Thanks!