Time Lord: Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time - Rilegato

Blaise, Clark

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ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2001

Riassunto

A portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming describes how, during a conference of scientific and political representatives from twenty-five key nations of the world, he managed to convince them to adopt a unified standard for telling time that incorporated the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system for measuring longitude and telling time. 25,000 first printing.

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Advance Praise for Time Lord:

"As digital read-outs blink the time of day at us from watches, cell phones, computer screens, pocket electronic calendars, billboards, and countless places more, the passage of time seems ever harder to escape. Where did this all begin? Clark Blaise's lively history traces the modern system of time zones back to its nineteenth-century origins. It's a fascinating story, with imperial rivalry and an eccentric visionary at its heart, and the wonder is that it's not better known."
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375401768
• ISBN 13: 9780375401763
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256