In October 1902, a man named Otto
Schulze registered the eddy-current
speedometer at the patent ofce in
Berlin.
Which leads Helmut Matschi, head
of the Interior Div. of Continental
Automotive ( continental-
automotive.com ), to remark that
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In just over 100 years, the interfaces on vehicles
have gone from a simple needle on a numbered
dial to a plethora of information.
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they've been working on and
studying human-machine interfaces
for about 110 years now.
Arguably, Schulze would be knocked
back on his heels were he to see
the proliferation of information
that is now part of the instrumenta-
tion and communication functions
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