Format:
1 Online-Ressource (265 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780228009641
Content:
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where, suddenly, the time differences between cities mattered. This book is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task
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Cover -- THE CLOCKS ARE TELLING LIES -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Uneasy Beginnings -- 2 Amateurs, Professionals, and Eccentrics -- 3 The International Meridian Conference -- 4 "The House That Jack Built": Selling Time, Constructing Modernities -- 5 Teaching Time, Using Time -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Resolutions Passed by the IMC -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johnston, Scott Alan The Clocks Are Telling Lies Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2022 ISBN 9780228008439
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zeit
;
Zeitmessung
;
Ortszeit
;
Reise
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Geschichte 1800-2020
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