The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
Scott Alan JohnstonThe remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair – and how standard time almost didn’t happen.
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.
Godina:
2022
Izdavač:
McGill-Queen's University Press
Jezik:
english
Strane:
304
ISBN 10:
0228009634
ISBN 13:
9780228009634
Fajl:
PDF, 8.57 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022
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