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• catalog abstract "This book charts the transition from local to national timekeeping in nineteenth-century America. Prior to the railroads adoption of Standard Railway Time in 1883, America lacked any uniform system to coordinate times and time zones. Railroads were the first to establish time standards to govern their operations, since railway safety depended upon regulating train movement through precise timing. The railroads switch to standard time, indexed to the Greenwich meridian, inaugurated the modern era of public timekeeping and led directly to cities adopting Greenwich-indexed civil time zones. Despite the efforts of astronomers and Congressional supporters who argued for the necessity of a national system of time authorized by the federal government, the railroads' success with their own system blocked legislation for a national system of time until the First World War. By then, the US Naval Observatory's noon signal dominated the public's timekeeping.".
• catalog contributor b11730667.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "This book charts the transition from local to national timekeeping in nineteenth-century America. Prior to the railroads adoption of Standard Railway Time in 1883, America lacked any uniform system to coordinate times and time zones. Railroads were the first to establish time standards to govern their operations, since railway safety depended upon regulating train movement through precise timing. The railroads switch to standard time, indexed to the Greenwich meridian, inaugurated the modern era of public timekeeping and led directly to cities adopting Greenwich-indexed civil time zones. Despite the efforts of astronomers and Congressional supporters who argued for the necessity of a national system of time authorized by the federal government, the railroads' success with their own system blocked legislation for a national system of time until the First World War. By then, the US Naval Observatory's noon signal dominated the public's timekeeping.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Employing Time (1801-1856) -- 1. True Time and Place -- 2. Running on Time -- 3. Telegraphing Time, Making History -- pt. II. Dispensing Local Time (1845-1875) -- 4. Introducing City Time -- 5. Antebellum Observatory Time Services -- 6. Lobbying for Time and New Technologies -- pt. III. Promoting a National View of Time -- 7. Abbe's Road: Uniform Time -- 8. Shaping a National Time Circuit -- 9. Gauging Time Accurately -- pt. IV. Conflict without Resolution (1879)̃ -- 10. Clashing over Time Bills -- 11. Inventing Standard Railway Time -- 12. A Failure in Time -- pt. V. Emerging American Technologies (1880-1889) -- 13. New Companies, Old Business -- 14. Two Instrument-Makers -- pt. VI. Finished and Unfinished Business (1888-1903) -- 15. The Time Peddlers -- 16. A Severe Blow to the Progress of Science -- Appendix: American Observatory Public Time Services.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 310 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804738742 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "389/.17/09 21".
• catalog subject "QB210.U5 B37 2000".
• catalog subject "Time Systems and standards United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Time Systems and standards United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Employing Time (1801-1856) -- 1. True Time and Place -- 2. Running on Time -- 3. Telegraphing Time, Making History -- pt. II. Dispensing Local Time (1845-1875) -- 4. Introducing City Time -- 5. Antebellum Observatory Time Services -- 6. Lobbying for Time and New Technologies -- pt. III. Promoting a National View of Time -- 7. Abbe's Road: Uniform Time -- 8. Shaping a National Time Circuit -- 9. Gauging Time Accurately -- pt. IV. Conflict without Resolution (1879)̃ -- 10. Clashing over Time Bills -- 11. Inventing Standard Railway Time -- 12. A Failure in Time -- pt. V. Emerging American Technologies (1880-1889) -- 13. New Companies, Old Business -- 14. Two Instrument-Makers -- pt. VI. Finished and Unfinished Business (1888-1903) -- 15. The Time Peddlers -- 16. A Severe Blow to the Progress of Science -- Appendix: American Observatory Public Time Services.".
• catalog title "Selling the true time : nineteenth-century timekeeping in America / Ian R. Bartky.".
• catalog type "text".