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Author(s) :- Ogle Vanessa | Format :- Hardback |
Publisher :- Harvard University Press | Pub. Date :- 2015-10-09 |
ISBN-13 :- 9780674286146 | |
Pagination :- 260 pages | |
Dimensions :- 165 x 244 x 26 | |
Weight :- 554 |
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.