Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- Publish date: 04/01/2001
After laboring for years to create a scientific consensus, Sandford Fleming gathered scientific and political representatives of 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.
Standard Time is one of the crowning achievements of Victorian progressiveness -- and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived virtually unchanged into our era. Time Lord 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.
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