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

Blaise, Clark

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0756760569 ISBN 13: 9780756760564

Casa editrice: Diane Pub Co, 2000

Riassunto

Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian progressiveness - and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived practically unchanged into our era. Few technological inventions have proven to be both as invisible and as important. Today we take it for granted that the world is divided into twenty-four time zones, but before Standard Time was established in 1884, time was an arbitrary measure decided by individual localities. With the advent of continent-spanning railroads and transatlantic steamers, the myriad local times became a mind-boggling obstacle and the rational ordering of time became an urgent priority.

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L'autore:

Clark Blaise is former head of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Diane Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0756760569
• ISBN 13: 9780756760564
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 246