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Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd This is the biography of an idea. and the remarkable story of the man who created-and then convinced the world to adopt-a unified standard for telling time.Today we take the accurate telling of time across the world for granted Yet little more than a hundred years ago. people even in neighbouring towns lived by different time schedules:. noon was simply whenever the sun happened to be overhead-Toronto time. for example. was different from Hamilton time some forty miles away. None of this mattered when people travelled in the slow style that had been the norm for generations. But then. as Clark Blaise makes vividly clear. trains arrived-and in the new age of communications myriad local times became a mind-boggling obstacle. and the rational ordering of time an urgent priority.Sandford Fleming. a young emigrant f...
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- PublisherVintage Canada
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0676974732
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. As New in As New jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.256 with index and bibliography. The story of Sir Sandford Fleming who invented Standard Time. clean tight unread copy. Seller Inventory # 003211
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ Issued. 1st Edition. Story of Sandford Fleming Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor of Standard Time and developer of important Canadian Railways among a host of other accomplishments. An almost 'as new' copy - bright, fresh, unmarked with a tight, square binding, no mspine creasing. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.90 - $9.00 unless extra heavy/large. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be approx US$16.00 for weights up to 5kg total - boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate. NOW available - new, considerably lower Trans-Canada rates for many major markets, and, new, considerably lower rates for Overseas destinations. Size: 20cm Tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 039946
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine soft cover copy of the first edition, first printing with a full number line down to "1". INSCRIBED BY CLARK BLAISE ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a tight clean copy with no markings of any kind. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000056
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Used book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book. About the book >.>.> Little more than a hundred years ago, Sandford Fleming, a youngemigrant from Scotland, solved the unfathomable temporal riddleof how to knit together a world stippled with thousands of localtimes. Standard Time was his solution, and few great technologicalinventions are both as invisible and as important.An absorbing reflection on the mythic origins of time itself, TimeLord is also a fascinating meditation on science, psychiatry, art andliterature. But at the heart of the story is the mild but fierce-mindedcommunications genius who sketched and surveyed his way fromocean to ocean, oversaw the building of the great Canadian rail-road, designed the first Beaver postage stamp, and invented theworld-circling, sub-Pacific cable; who saw the world as a wholeand changed its nature forever. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM157-VG-3874
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