AMERICAN METROLOGICAL SOCIETY STANDARD TIME- CIRCULAR, No. 1 drop-title

by F. A P. Barnard

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First edition

New York: The society, 1881 . First edition. 8vo. 3 pp. Proposing that North America unite upon a division of this continent into a few sections, throughout each of which the times adopted by railroad, canal, steamboat, and telegraph companies, the city or town clocks … shall all be kept as nearly as possible in agreement with one standard meridian.” Table “Proposed Schedule of Standard Times” with geographical sections, standard

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