The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

• | Author: Vanessa Ogle
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674286146
• | ISBN-10: 0674286146