I recently wrote about my first generation Kindle Fire and some of the benefits it has provided me, such as web access, Dropbox usage and, of course, keeping up on my reading.
Retired professor of math and computer science having taught for 36 years at a state supported university in Virginia. Ulysses S. Grant was given a traffic ticket while he was President. He was fined $20 for driving his horse too fast on a Washington street.
8.) $10 for being a pioneer (about $250 today). The first man convicted of speeding was Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, who on 28 January 1896 was fined for speeding at 8 mph in a 2 mph zone. He was fined 1 shilling plus costs.ive years later, a New York City cab driver named Jacob German was arrested for speeding on May 20, 1899 for driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. He got jail time. But the first man to get an actual paper ticket was Harry Myers for going 12 mph on West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio in 1904. A hero.