New Survive It Known That I, George E. Boyden, Bring Invented A Novel As Well As Useful Improvement Inwards Vehicle Signaling Systems! (So Begins A Foreign Patent From A Chauffeur Inwards Manhattan For A Tape Thespian That Helps A Driver Navigate)

My project design relates to signaling apparatus for vehicles, as well as its object is to render agency for announcing to the driver of an automobile the directions for next a predetermined route at a charge per unit of measurement proportionate to the speed, using a phonograph provided amongst a tape of the directions relating to a predetermined route to hold upward followed past times said vehicle

(George Boyden patented a novel way to navigate: Install a phonograph inwards your machine to play audio recordings through a megaphone inwards front end of the steering column. “The talking machine at the proper times volition denote the directions whereby the driver volition hold upward enabled to follow a predetermined route.” How does it know where y'all are? The phonograph is connected to the car’s wheels as well as volition engage solely when you’ve traveled sure enough predetermined distances.)

An illustrative embodiment of my project design is shown inwards the accompanying drawings inwards which

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Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automobile provided amongst my improved apparatus.
Fig. two is a project design stance of my improvement amongst the casing removed.
Fig. three is a cardinal longitudinal department taken on the trouble 3-3-of Fig. .2.
Fig. iv is a side elevation, partly inwards section, of the phonograph command apparatus, the department beingness taken on the trouble 44 of Fig. 2.
Fig. v is a project design stance of my improvement amongst the casing inwards position, sure enough parts beingness broken away to demonstrate the lock for securing the casing to its base.

Fig. half dozen is a department taken on the irregular trouble 6-6 of Fig. 5, sure enough parts beingness shown inwards elevation as well as sure enough other parts beingness omitted for the sake of clearness; on the trouble 77 of Fig. 5.
Fig. vii is a transverse department taken.
Fig. 8 is a transi to a greater extent than fully disclosing my invention, xx represents an automobile having my signaling apparatus 21 secured in that location to inwards the pose v inwards which I prefer to house it, namely, on the dash-board inwards proximity to the steering post service 23, as well as hence that the megaphone 22 volition hold upward straight inwards front end of the driver, although it volition hold upward understood of course of report that both the signaling apparatus as well as its megaphone may hold upward located inwards whatever other suitable position, for example, beingness placed beside instead of inwards front end of the driver.

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Keep inwards mind, this was the highest tech at the time, as well as mightiness induce got appealed to closed to people who didn't desire to endeavour as well as figure out AAA's Blue Book route instructions that were the same information, which the driver had to correlate past times keeping an oculus on the odometer if he had one, as well as the directions.