The global transformation of time : 1870-1950
Vanessa Ogle (Author)
As 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
eBook, English, 2015
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015