This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...region formerly known as the Great American Desert. The seven-hour meridian passes through Denver. Pacific time, one hour slower still, is the standard for the Pacific coast. The eight-hour meridian passes centrally through California. Two further improvements upon this plan may yet be made. There should be no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...region formerly known as the Great American Desert. The seven-hour meridian passes through Denver. Pacific time, one hour slower still, is the standard for the Pacific coast. The eight-hour meridian passes centrally through California. Two further improvements upon this plan may yet be made. There should be no insurmountable difficulty in having the time the same throughout any given state. The fact that the meridian by which Central time is governed runs near the Mississippi River much facilitates the grouping of the states in such a way that the time which should be adopted in each one is easily remembered, f Improvements in the plan. The clocks furnished are of a fair grade, and are expected to vary only a few seconds a day. They are set just right by the signal, and if they do not get out more than twenty seconds during the ensuing twenty-four hours, the next signal sets them right again. A rate of twenty seconds a day is rare. The system has therefore a high efficiency. t Central Standard time should be in force in all the states which border on the Mississippi, and the three great lakes, Superior, Michigan, and Huron, together with Alabama. These states are Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Eastern time should be the standard in all states east of the preceding ones. These are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, A further desirable change, which would be more difficult of accomplishment, because of the conservatism hour day"four" of even so progressive a people as Americans, is counting the hours continuously through the day from one to twenty-four. The designations, a. m. and p. m., would then be unnecessary. This system has already b...
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