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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (October 12, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674286146
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674286146
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsHow We Got Global Timekeeping
By Rob Hardy HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on January 28, 2016
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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 thing might be a cause for optimism, especially since a century ago there was lots of worldwide disagreement about marking time. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the period when people started discussing worldwide time and coming to agreements about it. It wasn’t always a coldly scientific endeavor, with power plays and nationalism often more important than objectivity, but how we came to the current standard is the story in _The Global Transformation of Time 1870 - 1950_ (Harvard University Press) by historian Vanessa Ogle. Ogle tells a careful and well-researched story of how horological chaos was transformed into our current and rather sensible system, and concentrates less on the world conferences that agreed on, say, dividing the longitude line at Greenwich for a standard, than the social, economic, and political forces that pushed for change.

Before the time covered in Ogle’s book, there was little need to try to synchronize clocks in different locales. It was train travel that showed the difficulties of all those different village times as people started moving long distances at fast speeds. Different railways kept time differently; in 1875, there were six different railway times being used just within the city of St. Louis. In 1883, the railroads decreed a Standard Railway Time, four hour-wide zones across America.Read more ›
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By H. T. Price on December 19, 2015
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Terrific read about the origins of how we think and measure time around the world.
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