The wheels on the wagon go 'round and 'round . . . On May 12, 1847, while traveling by wagon from Missouri to Utah, William Clayton invented the modern odometer , a distance-measuring device. Separate gears controlled the digits that tracked how often the wheels turned. Before this, Clayton had to...

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