: 1870–1950 Vanessa Ogle Harvard University Press , Oct 12, 2015 - History - 287 pages 0 Reviews As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced. Preview this book »