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2015 | History & Politics
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.
Vanessa Ogle
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| Published by | Harvard University Press |
| Edition | Unknown |
| ISBN | 9780674286146 |
| Language | N/A |
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