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Mansfield, Howard

 
9780892728169: Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart
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ISBN 10 : 0892728167 ISBN 13 : 9780892728169
Editeur : Down East Books, 2010

Synopsis

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities became linked by a universal time. Here Howard Mansfield explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically, as through the railroad, and through inventions like the telegraph, changed our concept of time and place forever.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities became linked by a universal time. Here, Howard Mansfield explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically, as through the railroad, and through inventions like the telegraph, changed our concept of time and place forever.

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Éditeur
Down East Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0892728167
ISBN 13 
9780892728169
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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