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Selling the true time : nineteenth-century timekeeping in America / Ian R. Bartky.
LIBRA QB210.U5 B37 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartky, Ian R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time--Systems and standards--United States.
- Time.
- Time--Systems and standards.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time- the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804738742
- OCLC:
- 43109830
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