Travelers' Official Guide
date: label: date made
content: 1883
notes: label: Description
content: The National Railway Publication Company in New York issued this Travelers’ Official Guide, a monthly periodical listing passenger timetables for railroads and steamships, in December 1883. The cover showed the new zoned times that would govern railway travel, and inside were new standardized time tables.
label: Description
content: On November 18, 1883, local times across North America – determined by the position of the sun overhead – were consolidated into standardized time zones. Each zone had a uniform time within its boundaries. At the request of the railroads, William F. Allen, publisher of the Guide, devised the plan. The railroads implemented the change for their own benefit and to avoid government intervention in operations. But gradually, despite scattered resistance, standard time became the way just about everyone kept time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Railway Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0472.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0472
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0472.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 18.0975 cm x 2.2352 cm