Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 17, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 26
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 8 Jan 1808 adds: "an instrument of wheel-work, to be attached to the wheel of a carriage, to ascertain the distance it travels."
Notes:
The Museum's viameter (an early form of the odometer) may have resembled this example said to have been used by John Metcalf (1717-1810) in laying out roads in England in the late-18th century.
