Time lord : the remarkable Canadian who missed his train and changed the world
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| Fleming, Sandford, 1827-1915. Time > Systems and standards > History. |
- ISBN: 0676974732
- Physical Description xv, 256 pages
- Edition Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher [Toronto] : Vintage Canada, 2001.
- Copyright ©2000
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| General Note: | Originally published: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.00 |
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Table of Contents
Time Lord
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | p. vii | |
| Foreword: The Gauge Age | p. ix | |
| Part 1 | A (Very) Brief History of Time | |
| 1 | The Discovery of Time | p. 3 |
| 2 | Time and Democracy | p. 15 |
| 3 | What Times Is It? | p. 30 |
| 4 | Time and Mr. Fleming | p. 47 |
| 5 | The Decade of Time, 1875-85 | p. 69 |
| 6 | The Practice of Time | p. 91 |
| Part 2 | Time Was in the Air | |
| 7 | Notes on Time and Victorian Science | p. 109 |
| 8 | Riding the Rails | p. 138 |
| 9 | The Aesthetics of Time | p. 153 |
| 10 | The Prime(s) of Mr. Sandford Fleming | p. 180 |
| Part 3 | After the Decade of Time | |
| 11 | Britain, 1887 | p. 219 |
| 12 | Time, Morals, and Locomotion, 1889 | p. 229 |
| Afterword: The Ghost of Sandford Fleming | p. 238 | |
| Bibliography | p. 241 | |
| Index | p. 247 |
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