Clocks Are Telling Lies : Science, Society, and the Construction of Time, Har...

by Scott Alan Johnston

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Clocks Are Telling Lies : Science, Society, and the Construction of Time, Hardcover by Johnston, Scott Alan, ISBN 0228008433, ISBN-13 9780228008439, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where, suddenly, the time differences between cities mattered. This book is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN: 9780228008439
• Condition: Fine

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