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Sir Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming was born at Kirkcaldy, Scotland in January 7, 1827.
Sandford died at Halifax in July 22, 1915. He was a civil engine er. He
was Canada's foremost railway surveyor and construction engine er of the
19th century and a distinguished inventor and scientist.
He came to Canada in 1845 ....
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communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was
successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a
satisfactory world system of keeping time. The railway had made obsolete
the old system where every major centre set it s clocks according to local
astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated t he adoption of a standard or
mean time and hourly variations from t hat according to established time
zones. He was instrumental in con vening an International Prime Meridian
conference in Washington in 1884 a ....
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