"Eastern Standard Tribe" is a story of madness and betrayal, of society after the End of Geography, of the intangible factors that define man as a species, as a tribe, as individuals. Scathing, bitter, and funny, EST examines the immutable truths of time, of societies smashed and rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication.
This study of Sir Sandford Fleming, a civil engineer and scientist, examines his great role in developing standard global time. He came up with the idea of the 24-hour clock, and with AM and PM, and he proposed and defended his idea in 1884 in Washington, D.C. at the Prime Meridian Conference. Since then, his invention has been used worldwide to ...
Focusing on 1820 to 1920, "Keeping Watch" details the far-reaching changes in American society during the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time--from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time, to regional time zones, synchronized watches, and factory punch clocks. O'Malley shows how the pressures of industrialization, ...
"One Time Fits All" provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuses on three components of uniform time all linked to the prime meridian at Greenwich - the International Date Line, the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) - ...
The history of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich has been revised to coincide with the Millenium. Color illustrations and updated text tell the story of Greenwich from its foundations in 1676 to its present status as Longitude 0, the world's Prime Meridian for measuring longitude and time. The book covers the importance of longitude for navigation ...
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