Uniform Non-Local time Terrestrial Time. Pamphlet.
Ottawa, Canada: Ca. 1880. Wraps. Essay on the need for a "uniform time" throughout the world, a necessity brought about as a result of the invention of steam locomotion and the telegraph. Sir Sandford Fleming was a Canadian railway engineer who led the first effort to adopt current day meridians in the US and Canada. Sir Fleming drove the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway; he wanted to set up standard time and hourly variations according to established time zones to facilitate railway schedules. In 1884 the system of international standard time was adopted at the international Prime Meridian conference held in Washington DC.
The pamphlet illustrated with numerous clock faces. Fascinating owner annotations, in pencil and pen (around the clock faces) and interestingly, the owner has used straight pins to attach his own clock faces over the printed clock faces (p29). With a newspaper article on the same topic from the Poughkeepsie NY Daily Eagle, dated June 15, 1878 laid down inside the front wrapper.
8vo, 32pp. Illustrated printed paper wrappers, title in black at front wrapper, with illustration of the dissected and lettered globe at front wrapper. Chipped at edges, slightly dusty, vertical crease, pencil calculations at rear wrapper. OCLC: 2585265. Good + overall. Item #23371
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