英语词汇parking meter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	parking meter
词源	parking meter. This expression became common only after July 16, 1935, when the world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. However, two Oklahoma State University professors developed the first Park-O-Meter in 1933 and it had been suggested by journalist Carl C. Magee a year or so before that. Park-O-Meter No. 1 is now on display in the Oklahoma Historical Society. It originally cost five cents for one hour’s use and the first person to be arrested for a meter vi- olation was a minister.
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