Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart

by Howard Mansfield

Book Overview

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442226382
• ISBN13: 9781442226388
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.2"