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100	1		_aBlaise, Clark.
245	1	0	_aTime lord : _bSir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time / _cClark Blaise.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books _c2000.
300			_axv, 254 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245) and index.
505	0		_aGauge age -- Brief history of time: Discovery of time -- Time and democracy -- What is time? -- Time and Mr. Fleming -- Decade of time, 1875-85 -- Practice of time -- Time was in the air: Notes on time and Victorian science -- Riding the rails -- Aesthetics of time -- Prime(s) of Mr. Sandford Fleming -- After the decade of time: Britain, 1887 -- Time, morals, and locomotion,1889 -- Afterword: Ghost of Sandford Fleming.
520	1		_a"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." "After laboring for years to create a scientific consensus, Sandford Fleming gathered scientific and political representatives from the world's twenty-five independent nations in Washington, D.C., for the Prime Meridian Conference. There, after considerable rancor, delegates agreed to the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system by which the entire world would measure its longitudes and tell the same time." "In Time Lord, Clark Blaise introduces us to an almost-forgotten figure, who saw the world as a whole and overcame traditional and national objections to the rational accounting of time."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aFleming, Sandford, _d1827-1915.
600	1	6	_aFleming, Sandford, _cSir, _d1827-1915.
650		0	_aTime _xSystems and standards _xHistory.
650		6	_aTemps _xSystáemes et normes _xHistoire.
650		4	_aHora _xSistemas y normas _95815
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00058893-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00058893-d.html
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00058893-s.html
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