Abstract
Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, horses provided the fastest, most dependable method for getting around on land. Then came the iron horse, which with the telegraph meant transportation and communication in very short amounts of real time. This marked the first occasion in which the differences in local time brought about by differences in longitude became a major inconvenience.
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Upgren, A. (1998). About Time. In: Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6072-6_21
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