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Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

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Re: Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

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I’ve always thought it would be cool to have a printed out minimum spanning tree starting from my house (or work) with miles marked out on it. You wouldn’t need OSM or google maps then!

Something like this:

https://www.wanhala.net/post/156592370293/all-roads-lead-to-...

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Re: Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

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This reminded me of something similar: https://gajitz.com/scrolling-down-the-highway-vintage-1927-a... It's a watch-like, wrist device called the "Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator", and it dates back to 1927.

When I was a little kid I wanted a computer so bad that I was even thinking to build a box with some sort of changing "screen" that'd be a roll of paper with some images attached to it. Turns out I wasn't that crazy.

Ha, I did the same. Built little casings in LEGOs. Good times
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