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 Time—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.