It's hard to predict the effects of new infrastructure. Neat article from Alexandier Field about the telegraph: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123117 .
@patrickc Patrick, indeed. Up till the railroad & telegraph in the US there was no universal time. Each city made their own time standard.
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@BrianRoemmele@patrickc more like in spite of railroad & telegraph US was able by 1918 Calder Act to agree on time https://books.google.com/books?id=Xf_D6DpKlD0C&pg=PA90 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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