Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America
by Ian R. Bartky
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Hardback. New. 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.
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- Title
- Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America
- Author
- Ian R. Bartky
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0804738742
- ISBN 13
- 9780804738743
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- August 10, 2000
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