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While at the track last weekend we are teaching my 14 year old grandson the ins and outs of driving a race car.
While telling him to watch the tach he replied what does the tach tell me? which we replied it measures/shoes the engine RPM.
His question was why is it not called a RPM meter?
I have to say I had no answer.
A quick search on Google had no apparent answer as well.
Any ideas here?


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Short for tachometer


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ding ding ding ding we have a winner good job Dave


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Originally posted by David Gerard:
Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachometer
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Short for tachometer


Seriously LOL

Thanks for clearing that up


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Kids ask the darndest questions.




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My oldest son works for Google, so I always just start there!

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My oldest son works for Google, so I always just start there!

Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose!

You have to ask the right question to get the right answer! Big Grin


Google was the first place I went to. Unfortunately my browser appears to have blocked or pushed many pages back any quality answers.


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If memory serves I asked about this in school "pre google" ~ 30 years ago before answer for everything was on google but went and verified to be sure.....Greek origin "Tachos" or "Tachus", speed, swiftness, rapidness.

Good question!!!

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