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03440aam a22004698i 4500 001 9A9FA63AA1D211ECAF119D2821ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220312010119 008 210316s2022 quca b 001 0 eng 020 $a 9780228008439 020 $a 0228008433 035 $a (OCoLC)1241730840 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d IAD $d VTU $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a QB223 $b .J64 2022 055 0 $a QB223 $b .J64 2022 082 0 $a 389/.17 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Johnston, Scott Alan, $e author. 245 14 $a The clocks are telling lies : $b science, society, and the construction of time / $c Scott Alan Johnston. 264 1 $a Montreal ; $b McGill-Queen's University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xi, 247 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, in 1884 to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways - from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 650 0 $a Time $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Time $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Horology $x History. 650 0 $a Time measurements $x History. 650 0 $a Clocks and watches $x History. 650 7 $a Clocks and watches. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864521 650 7 $a Horology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960359 650 7 $a Time measurements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01151135 650 7 $a Time $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01151066 650 7 $a Time $x Systems and standards. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01151078 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Johnston, Scott Alan. $t Clocks are telling lies. $d Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 $z 9780228009634 $z 9780228009634 $w (OCoLC)1265296854 941 $a 2 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305021510.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802021941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A9FA63AA1D211ECAF119D2821ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IW3Initiate Another SILO Locator Search