Warner Auto-Meter
date: label: date made
content: after 1905
name: label: advertiser
content: Warner Instrument Company
label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Advertising card for the Warner Auto-Meter, a combined odometer, speedometer, and clock. The front has image of an auto-meter and black and red print. The back is marked "MEMORANDUM" and is otherwise blank.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Warner Auto-Meter differed from similar products in its use of magnetic principles for measuring speed. Competitors' instruments utilized centrifugal force to obtain this measurement and were subject to increasingly innaccurate readings as the many parts necessary for this reading wore down or failed. By comparison, the simplified design of the Warner Auto-Meter was much more dependable and long-lasting. The Warner Instrument Company was the first to produce a single instrument for measuring both speed and distance.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
label: referenced
content: United States: Wisconsin, Beloit
topic: label: Subject
content: Automobiles
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
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content: Transportation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0527
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0527
objectType: label: Object Name
content: notepad
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 1 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 3 11/16 in; .15875 cm x 4.445 cm x 9.36625 cm