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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnston, Scott Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
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.
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