An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 256 pages; Description: xv, 256 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245) and index. Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir (1827-1915) --Time --Systems and standards --History.
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A portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming describes how, during a conference of scientific and political representatives from twenty-five key nations of the world, he managed to convince them to adopt a unified standard for telling time that incorporated the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system for measuring longitude and telling time. 25,000 first printing.
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