Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise

Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

Clark Blaise

272 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The story of the man who, in the 1880s, created a unified standard for telling time--one that included the Greenwich Prime Meridian and the International Date Line--and then convinced all the world's nations to adopt it, is presented.

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