The clocks are telling lies : science, society, and the construction of time /

"Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnston, Scott Alan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Time > Systems and standards > History.
Time > Social aspects > History.
Horology > History.
Time measurements > History.
Clocks and watches > History.
Temps > Aspect social > Histoire.
Horométrie > Histoire.
Temps > Mesure > Histoire.
SCIENCE / History.
Clocks and watches.
Horology.
Time measurements.
Time > Social aspects.
Time > Systems and standards.
American.
Annie Maunder.
British.
Canadian history.
Charles Piazzi Smyth.
Cleveland Abbe.
George Airy.
Greenwich.
Indigenous.
John Couch Adams.
Kikuchi Dairoku.
Martial Bourdin.
Ruth Belville.
Sandford Fleming.
Simon Newcomb.
William Allen.
William Chistie.
William Parker Snow.
astronomy.
business.
computers.
day.
daylight savings.
diplomacy.
global.
great pyramid.
history.
international meridian conference.
local time.
longitude.
metric system.
prime meridian.
railway time.
royal observatory.
science.
standard.
technology.
time-sense.
time.
timekeeping.
transit venus.
universal.
zones.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Uneasy beginnings
  • Amateurs, professionals, and eccentrics
  • The International Meridian Conference
  • "The House That Jack Built": Selling time, constructing modernities
  • Teaching time, using time
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Resolutions passed by the IMC.

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