“Satellite navigation (SatNav) is a lot older than previously thought. In fact, it’s even decades older than man-made satellites themselves. This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end. The [...]
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1920s Routefinder
Posted in Industrial design, Maps and graphs, tagged 1920s, navigational devices, Routefinder on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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