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100	1		_aBartky, Ian R, _eauthor. _94679
245	1	0	_aSelling the true time : _bnineteenth-century timekeeping in America / _cIan R. Bartky.
250			_a[1st edition].
264		1	_aStanford, Calif. : _bStanford University Press, _c[2000]
264		4	_c©2000
300			_axvi, 310 pages : _billustrations ; _c27 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
505	0		_apt. 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			_aThis 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.
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590			_aRailroad Time Sociology; Time standards 19th Century
650		0	_aTime _xSystems and standards _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRailroads _xTime standards. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111060 _96216
650		7	_aTime _xSystems and standards. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01151078 _93826
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
653		0	_aSociology
653		5	_aUSA
653		3	_aTimestandards railroad time
653		2	_aTimekeeping
653		0	_aTimekeeper (general)
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