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Ladataan... Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2000; vuoden 2002 painos)Tekijä: Clark Blaise
TeostiedotTime Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World (tekijä: Clark Blaise) (2000)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. started this book and then misplaced it for about a year before finishing. This may have hampered my enjoyment. I felt there was enough material for an interesting new yorker article, but that it was being stretched to fill a book. Interesting analysis of the effect of time standardization on art in general and literature in particular. ( ) Have you ever imagined what life was like before time zones? Every village had their own time. Noon was when the sun stood directly overhead. New Year's Eve was a wave of celebration that spread town-by-town across the country. None of this was really a problem until the advent of railways. All of a sudden you had to explain to people at both ends of a route what time the train was leaving and arriving. You can imagine the confusion. Time Lord is marketed as a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming, but it's really much broader than that. It's a history of the late Victorian era when people's understanding of time radically shifted. Blaise's work draws significantly on literature to describe people's attitudes towards time. Fleming is the perfect candidate through which to explore this era. He's known for three main things: surveying a good portion of Canada's cross-country railroad, leading the world to a conference where time was standardized, and laying a world-circling sub-Pacific cable. All three major elements of life swirl around the question of what time is and how it should be described. Some might feel that the book meanders a little too much. One of the chapters, for example, is almost exclusively devoted to Sherlock Holmes. I, on the other hand, found the leisurely journey through the late nineteenth-century quite fascinating.
"a rumination on society's conception of time and how it was dramatically changed at the end of the 19th century."
"Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian progressiveness - and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived practically unchanged into our era. Few technological inventions have proven to be both as invisible and as important. Today we take it for granted that the world is divided into twenty-four time zones, but before Standard Time was established in 1884, time was an arbitrary measure decided by individual localities. With the advent of continent-spanning railroads and transatlantic steamers, the myriad local times became a mind-boggling obstacle and the rational ordering of time became an urgent priority." "After laboring for years to create a scientific consensus, Sandford Fleming gathered scientific and political representatives from the world's twenty-five independent nations in Washington, D.C., for the Prime Meridian Conference. There, after considerable rancor, delegates agreed to the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system by which the entire world would measure its longitudes and tell the same time." "In Time Lord, Clark Blaise introduces us to an almost-forgotten figure, who saw the world as a whole and overcame traditional and national objections to the rational accounting of time."--Jacket. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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