Sand Ford Fleming

Sir sand Ford Fleming (* 7. January 1827 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland; † 22. July 1915 in Halifax, new facts Scotia, Canada) was an important Canadian engineer and land surveyor.

Railway engineer Fleming gave the impact to 1879 for the introduction of our system of the time belts 1884. It was an initial member of the Royal Society OF Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian of institutes, a science organization in Toronto.

literature

  • Clark Blaise: The Zähmung of the time: Sir sand Ford Fleming and the invention of the world time. Frankfurt A.M.: S. Fischer, 2001 ISBN 3-10-007109-3 (amerikan. Orig.: Time lord. Sir sand Ford Fleming and the Creation OF standard Time. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000)

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