(Ebook pdf) Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
✿ Clark Blaise ✿
| #1092457 in Books | Vintage | 2002-04-23 | 2002-04-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.96 x.61 x5.20l,.44 | File Name: 0375727523 | 272 pages | Great product!
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Not really the book it should be|By Bruce R. Gilson|What one would want to see in a book about "Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" would be a biography of Fleming, some historical background on timekeeping up to the time of the standardization of time, and perhaps some material evaluating the contributions of Fleming and such others as William Allen and Ch|.com |In the 1880s, a businessman traveling by train from New York to Boston needed, on arrival, to adjust his clock, moving it ahead by 12 minutes. The strange increment, writes Clark Blaise, was a matter of local interpretation, some enterprising Bostonian h
It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately threatened to impede progress. The creation of standard time, with its two dozen global time zones, is one of the great inventions of the Victorian Era...
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