Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication year: 2001
ISBN: 0375401768
Description:
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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