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631c9ab3b08d4 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240909204239.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
991220s2000 caua b 001 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
99086739 |
019 ## - |
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50216090 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0804738742 |
Qualifying information |
(acid-free paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780804738743 |
Qualifying information |
(acid-free paper) |
024 3# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
Standard number or code |
9780804738743 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)43109830 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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NYHRS |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
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 |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
still image |
Content type code |
sti |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
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 |
653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Sociology |
653 #5 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
USA |
653 #3 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Timestandards railroad time |
653 #2 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Timekeeping |
653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Timekeeper (general) |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Books |
Suppress in OPAC |
No |
994 ## - |
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C0 |
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NYHRS |