[PDF.81mz] Keeping Watch: A History of Time in America

Keeping Watch: A History of Time in America

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 | #3349022 in Books |  1991-07-01 |  1991-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.00 x1.00 x7.00l, | File type: PDF | 400 pages

 | Michael O'Malley Ph.D. | science | engineering

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||From Publishers Weekly|America reluctantly accepted artificial "standard" time and the "time zone" concept as urbanization increased, the national economy became interdependent and secular humanism triumphed. "Although original and important, the book rests on a

Focusing on the period from 1820 to 1920, Keeping Watch details the far-reaching changes in American society brought about by the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time - from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time to regional time zones, synchronized watches, and factory punch clocks. Michael O'Malley shows how the pressures of industrialization, the emergence of the telegraph, and the spread of railroads led to a demand for uniform, consist...

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