The Global Transformation of Time

1870–1950

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Time, History, World History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Vanessa Ogle ISBN: 9780674737020
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: October 12, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Vanessa Ogle
ISBN: 9780674737020
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: October 12, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

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As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

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