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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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 bu...

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