The clocks are telling lies :: science, society, and the construction of time /
"Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where s...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, in 1884 to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways - from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling."-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| 520 | |a "Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, in 1884 to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways - from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Uneasy beginnings -- Amateurs, professionals, and eccentrics -- The International Meridian Conference -- "The House That Jack Built": Selling time, constructing modernities -- Teaching time, using time -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Resolutions passed by the IMC. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2022). | ||
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| 653 | |a Indigenous. | ||
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| 653 | |a Kikuchi Dairoku. | ||
| 653 | |a Martial Bourdin. | ||
| 653 | |a Ruth Belville. | ||
| 653 | |a Sandford Fleming. | ||
| 653 | |a Simon Newcomb. | ||
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| spelling | Johnston, Scott Alan, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021100315 The clocks are telling lies : science, society, and the construction of time / Scott Alan Johnston. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, in 1884 to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways - from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling."-- Provided by publisher. Uneasy beginnings -- Amateurs, professionals, and eccentrics -- The International Meridian Conference -- "The House That Jack Built": Selling time, constructing modernities -- Teaching time, using time -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Resolutions passed by the IMC. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2022). Time Systems and standards History. Time Social aspects History. Horology History. Time measurements History. Clocks and watches History. Temps Aspect social Histoire. Horométrie Histoire. Temps Mesure Histoire. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Clocks and watches fast Horology fast Time measurements fast Time Social aspects fast Time Systems and standards fast American. Annie Maunder. British. Canadian history. Charles Piazzi Smyth. Cleveland Abbe. George Airy. Greenwich. Indigenous. John Couch Adams. Kikuchi Dairoku. Martial Bourdin. Ruth Belville. Sandford Fleming. Simon Newcomb. William Allen. William Chistie. William Parker Snow. astronomy. business. computers. day. daylight savings. diplomacy. global. great pyramid. history. international meridian conference. local time. longitude. metric system. prime meridian. railway time. royal observatory. science. standard. technology. time-sense. time. timekeeping. transit venus. universal. zones. History fast has work: The clocks are telling lies (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG6FvkdpxRpQwbyWqRqb3P https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Johnston, Scott Alan. Clocks are telling lies. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228008433 9780228008439 (OCoLC)1241730840 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3030920 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Johnston, Scott Alan The clocks are telling lies : science, society, and the construction of time / Uneasy beginnings -- Amateurs, professionals, and eccentrics -- The International Meridian Conference -- "The House That Jack Built": Selling time, constructing modernities -- Teaching time, using time -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Resolutions passed by the IMC. Time Systems and standards History. Time Social aspects History. Horology History. Time measurements History. Clocks and watches History. Temps Aspect social Histoire. Horométrie Histoire. Temps Mesure Histoire. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Clocks and watches fast Horology fast Time measurements fast Time Social aspects fast Time Systems and standards fast |
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| title_auth | The clocks are telling lies : science, society, and the construction of time / |
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| title_full | The clocks are telling lies : science, society, and the construction of time / Scott Alan Johnston. |
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| topic | Time Systems and standards History. Time Social aspects History. Horology History. Time measurements History. Clocks and watches History. Temps Aspect social Histoire. Horométrie Histoire. Temps Mesure Histoire. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Clocks and watches fast Horology fast Time measurements fast Time Social aspects fast Time Systems and standards fast |
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