{"product_id":"9780756760564","title":"Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time","description":"The remarkable story of the man who created and then convinced all the  nations of the world to adopt a unified standard for telling time.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian  progressiveness and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived  practically unchanged into our era. Few technological inventions have proven  to be both as invisible and as important. Today we take it for granted that  the world is divided into twenty-four time zones, but before Standard Time  was established in 1884, time was an arbitrary measure decided by individual  localities. With the advent of continent-spanning railroads and  transatlantic steamers, the myriad local times became a mind-boggling  obstacle and the rational ordering of time became an urgent priority.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     After laboring for years to create a scientific consensus, Sandford Fleming  gathered scientific and political representatives from the world's  twenty-five independent nations in Washington, D.C., for the Prime Meridian  Conference. There, after considerable rancor, delegates agreed to the  Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system  by which the entire world would measure its longitudes and tell the same  time.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     In \u003ci\u003eTime Lord\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eClark Blaise\u003c\/b\u003e introduces us to an almost-forgotten figure, who  saw the world as a whole and overcame traditional and national objections to  the rational accounting of time.   ","brand":"DIANE Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029102084336,"sku":"9780756760564","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780756760564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}