Selling the True Time

Selling the True Time

Author: Ian R. Bartky

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780804738743

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This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Timeā€”the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.