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The Roman Odometer: Gears, Pebbles and Military Strategy
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The Roman odometer is an amazing example of how technology can respond to specific needs, even more than two thousand years ago. In an empire where territorial control, military logistics and civil administration depended on precision, counting distances traveled was not a luxury, but a necessity. This apparatus, whose oldest description comes from the Roman engineer Vitruvio in his work De Architectura (Book X), operated with a toothed wheel sy…
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