[PDF.62xs] The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

[PDF.yq08] The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

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 | #249734 in Books |  2015-10-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.00 x6.40 x9.30l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| How We Got Global Timekeeping|By Rob Hardy|You can look at your smartphone or computer and tell the the time to such an exactitude that only scientists in obscure ivory towers need anything more accurate. And, other than the differences in time zones, everyone else in the world can do the same and get the same reading. That there is an agreed-upon world standard for such a th| |The powerful lesson of Ogle’s book is how the gradual global transformation of time over the course of the twentieth century came to suit many different parties, all of whom thought they had something to gain from new modes of integration and connectivit

As new networks of 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 in establishing international standards.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950   |  Vanessa Ogle. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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