{"id":4738,"date":"2026-05-12T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:58:08","slug":"odometer-was-invented-by-william-clayton-in-1847","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4738","title":{"rendered":"Odometer Was Invented by William Clayton in 1847"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Odometer was invented by William Clayton in 1847<\/strong> while he was crossing the country in a wagon train. He called his invention the Roadometer. An odometer measures distance traveled. Children could research the different \u201c-ometers,\u201d for example, the speedometer, tachometer and odometer. Children could learn more about Clayton&#8217;s invention at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/000\/mormon-odometer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odometer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odometer was invented by William Clayton in 1847 while he was crossing the country in a wagon train. He called his invention the Roadometer. An odometer measures distance traveled. Children could research the different \u201c-ometers,\u201d for example, the speedometer, tachometer and odometer. Children could learn more about Clayton&#8217;s invention at: Odometer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2679,1995,1997,1998,1996],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-invention","tag-odometer","tag-roadometer","tag-wagon-train","tag-william-clayton","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26441,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/26441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}