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

Blaise, Clark

ISBN 10: 0375401768 / ISBN 13: 9780375401763

Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Codice articolo 3222554-6

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.

Recensione: 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

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Titolo: Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the ...
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good
Edizione: 1st Ed. (U.S.).