Selling the true time : (Record no. 2233)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 99086739
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0804738742
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780804738743
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024 3# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 9780804738743
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)43109830
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Original cataloging agency DLC
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049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library HRSA
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bartky, Ian R,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 4679
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Selling the true time :
Remainder of title nineteenth-century timekeeping in America /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ian R. Bartky.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement [1st edition].
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Stanford, Calif. :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Stanford University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2000]
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2000
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 310 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 27 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note pt. I. Employing Time (1801-1856) -- 1. True Time and Place -- 2. Running on Time -- 3. Telegraphing Time, Making History -- part II. Dispensing Local Time (1845-1875) -- 4. Introducing City Time -- 5. Antebellum Observatory Time Services -- 6. Lobbying for Time and New Technologies -- part III. Promoting a National View of Time -- 7. Abbe's Road: Uniform Time -- 8. Shaping a National Time Circuit -- 9. Gauging Time Accurately -- part IV. Conflict without Resolution (1879)̃ -- 10. Clashing over Time Bills -- 11. Inventing Standard Railway Time -- 12. A Failure in Time -- part V. Emerging American Technologies (1880-1889) -- 13. New Companies, Old Business -- 14. Two Instrument-Makers -- part 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
562 ## - COPY AND VERSION IDENTIFICATION NOTE
Materials specified 31560000049102
Copy identification 283
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Railroad Time Sociology; Time standards 19th Century
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Time
General subdivision Systems and standards
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Railroads
General subdivision Time standards.
Authority record control number or standard number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111060
9 (RLIN) 6216
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Time
General subdivision Systems and standards.
Source of heading or term fast
Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01151078
9 (RLIN) 3826
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States.
Source of heading or term fast
Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Uncontrolled term Sociology
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Uncontrolled term USA
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Uncontrolled term Timestandards railroad time
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Uncontrolled term Timekeeping
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Uncontrolled term Timekeeper (general)
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
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