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 became linked by a universal time. Here Howard Mansfield explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically, as through the railroad, and through inventions like the telegraph, changed our concept of time and place forever.The book, Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780892728169 in Hardcover by Howard Mansfield may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
08/16/2010
ISBN-10:
0892728167
ISBN-13:
9780892728169
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Down East Books
