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How Time & Place Fell Apart
Down East Books
August 2010
On Sale: August 16, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0892728167
EAN: 9780892728169
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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