Author: Samuel ShaenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
A Review of Railways and Railway Legislation at Home and Abroad
Author: Samuel ShaenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Railway Chronicle
Author: Railway Times
Author: Railway Review
Author: Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association
Author: International Railway Congress AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1836
Book Description
Railway Clocks
Author: Ian P. LymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
With over 700 examples, this work provides an illustrated history of clocks made for use on the railways of England, Scotland and Wales.
Iron
Author: Perry Fairfax NurseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Zero Degrees
Author: Charles W. J. WithersPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian’s location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain’s imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. Withers guides readers through the navigation and astronomy associated with diverse meridians and explains the problems that these cartographic lines both solved and created. He shows that as science and commerce became more global and as railway and telegraph networks tied the world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians led to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time and the geographical division of space. After a series of international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic choice for a global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without acrimony. Even after 1884, other prime meridians remained in use for decades. As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of the prime meridian are a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.