Against this the pedometer offered a check, and the compass gave the course.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Against this there is the check of the pedometer or some other automatic measure for distance covered.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Few occupations are more wearisome than counting a series of repetitions of the same fact; the number of paces we walk affords a tolerably good measure of distance passed over, but the value of this is much enhanced by possessing an instrument, the pedometer, which will count for us the number of steps we have made.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage