A meter for parking. Well not really…
- The parking meter was designed to prevent early workers parking on public streets, which stopped shoppers finding parking spaces.
- The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City on the 16th of July, 1935.
- The first parking meter fine was given out on August, 1935.
- The parking meter was invented by Carlton C. Magee in 1932.
- Some mordern parking meters use solar power.
- On 19 of September, 1960, 344 parking meter fines were handed out in London.
- In 1992, the Park-O-Meter inc. invented an entirely electronic parking meter, called the Advanced Parking Meter.
- Church leader, Reverend North, was the first person to get a parking meter fine.
- The first parking meter looked like a pole with a box on top of it.
- Before electrical parking meters were invented, people, called traffic wardens or meter maids would stand by a parking meter for assistance.
Bibliography:
Harrison, I 2004, The Book of Inventions, Cassell Illustrated, Great Britian
