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Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
作者: Blaise, Clark
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (2002年04月22日)
页数: 274页
语种: 英语
ISBN: 9780375727528
条形码: 9780375727528
商品重量: 200.00g
商品尺寸: 20.35cm * 13.18cm * 1.37cm
内容简介
In the tradition of "Longitude, Time Lord" recounts the story of the creation of standard time in 1884, one of the great untold accomplishments of 19th-century progress and technology. Entertaining, erudite, and insightful, this is a masterful tapestry of science, history, and biography.
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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 burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately threatened to impede progress. The creation of standard time, with its two dozen global time zones, is one of the great inventions of the Victorian Era, yet it has been largely taken for granted. In Time Lord, Clark Blaise re-creates the life of Sanford Fleming, who struggled to convince the world to accept standard time. It's a fascinating story of science, politics, nationalism, and the determined vision of one man who changed the world. Set in a time marked by substantial technological and cultural transformation, Time Lord is also an erudite exploration of art, literature, consciousness, and our changing relationship to time
Biographical Note
Clark Blaise, former head of the Iowa Writer's Program, lives in San Francisco.
