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Meter Maker

  • May 10, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The parking meter was invented by Oklahoma City newspaper publisher Carl C. Magee to help manage a street-parking crisis caused by the large increase in the automobile’s popularity. The first “Park-O-Meter” was installed in the city on July 16, 1935.

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