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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- ISBN
- 9780228009634 0228009634
- Pages
- 304
- Published in
- Montréal, CA
