Time Lord
Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
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, yet it has been largely taken for granted.In Time Lord, Clark Blaise re-creates the life of Sanford Fleming, who struggled to convince the world to accept standard time. It's…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-72752-8
- EAN: 9780375727528
- Produktnummer: 9623667
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Über den Autor
Clark Blaise, former head of the Iowa Writer's Program, lives in San Francisco.
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