Document Details Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit, Standard time and Victorian networks of regulation:
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- Title: Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit, Standard time and Victorian networks of regulation
SubTitle: [an article Published in the March 2009 Issue of British Journal of the History of Science, won the 2009 Prize of the IEEE in Electrical History) - Author: David Rooney, James Nye
- Publisher: IEEE
Keywords: time
Other Keywords: Standard Time Corporation STC time distribution
Language: ENG
Notes: Offprint of a scholarly article from British Journal of History of Science, MArch 2009 issue, on the social and political impact of time standardisation in the UK in the 30 years (1840-1870) between standard railroad time and a legal national standard time, and the efforts of the Standard Time Corporation to maintain a monopoly in the distribution of time. 99 Footnotes,. Accomanied by a related short article published in ?The Guaridan?, Saturday, October 24, 2009
Edition: 2009-March -- Copyright: 2009
Kind: Article
Type: TIME
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: Sociology
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 29 -- Height in cm: 27
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 14676 - Publisher: IEEE
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