Clark Blaise

Time Lord

Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-307-76655-7
EAN: 9780307766557
Produktnummer: 15735829
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'934 KB

Über den Autor

Clark Blaise, former head of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bharati Mukherjee. Time Lord is his sixteenth book.