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Article #1232Re: Anti folklore (the truth)
From: mik... Mike McManus
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 17:31
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 17:31
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In article <1990Feb7.2...@agate.berkeley.edu> b...@alfa.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:
> I seem to remember
> reading that the analogue of taxi-cabs in ancient Rome used a geared
> mechanism which dropped a stone into a hopper for every N revolutions of
> the wheels of the vehicle (chariot?). One paid at the end of the trip
> according to the count of the stones.
Interesting! Almost sounds like something from "The Flintstone's"!
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