How did railroads turn local clocks into a global standard?
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The rapidly expanding 19th-century rail network not only 'annihilated space,' in the parlance of the day, but also altered the definition, use, and perception of time. Moreover, like much else in the burgeoning industrial world of the era, from railroad gauges to switching systems, steel rails to wall joists, time itself would become standardized by the turn of the 20th century, albeit not without opposition.
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