Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
by Blaise, Clark
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- 0375401768
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. xv, 256 pages; 22 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Clark Blaise on the title page, no dedication. Top edge lightly soiled, small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. "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. / Clark Blaise, former head of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bharati Mukherjee. Time Lord is his sixteenth book." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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Clark Blaise, former head of the Iowa Writer’s Program, lives in San Francisco.
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- Title
- Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
- Author
- Blaise, Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0375401768
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401763
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
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