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== History == The speedometer was originally patented by [[Josip Belušić]] (Giuseppe Bellussich) in 1888. He presented his invention at the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|1889 Exposition Universelle]] in [[Paris]]. His invention had a pointer and a magnet, using [[eddy current|electricity]] to work.<ref name="Google Patents">{{cite web|url= https://patents.google.com/patent/US442849 |title=US442849Ang use United States |publisher=Google Patents |access-date=21 September 2020}}</ref><ref name="Bulliet, Columbia">{{cite book|first=Richard W. |last=Bulliet |author-link= Richard W. Bulliet|title=The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=x341CwAAQBAJ&q=Josip+Belusic+croatian+inventor&pg=PA29|date=2020|publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York, NY |page=129 |isbn=978-0-231-54061-2}}</ref><ref name=Tehnika>{{cite encyclopedia|url= https://tehnika.lzmk.hr/belusic-josip/|title=Belušić, Josip |encyclopedia=Hrvatska tehnička encyclopedia [Croatian Technical Encyclopedia] |date=11 November 2015 |access-date=19 August 2020}}</ref> German inventor Otto Schultze patented his version (which, like Belušić's, ran on eddy currents) on 7 October 1902.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://w1.siemens.com/press/en/pp_cc/2005/04_apr/sosep200501_10_(special200504)_1264810.htm |title=Speedometer |publisher=Siemens |date=26 April 2005| access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>
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