Tondine de Quarenghi, Abbe
topology
trade, international conventions used in
Tresca, Gustave
Tubman, Harriet
Unabomber
United States:
in Civil War
clock coordination in
electromapping efforts of
industrial distribution of time in
military locating systems of
radio time implemented by
railroad adoption of time zones in
universal comparator
Universal Exposition (1851)
Universal Exposition (1889)
Universal Exposition (1900)
Venus, occultation of
Victoria, Queen of England
Vienna, Austria, pneumatic clocks in
Vienna Circle
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène
Waldo, Leonard
Walker, Sears
Walter, Scott
war:
international conventions on
signal technology used in
Warwick, Andrew
Weber, Heinrich Friedrich
Weierstrass, Karl
Weiss, Pierre
Wells, H. G.
Western Union
West Indies, longitudinal mapping of
What Books Say, What Things Say (Poincaré)
Wheatstone, Charles
Wheeler, John
Whittaker, Edmund
Wien, Wilhelm
Wise, M. Norton
Wolf, Charles
World Time Convention (1884):
day’s start addressed by
decimalization of time keeping urged at
prime meridian decided at
World War I
World War II
Wren, Christopher
Yale Observatory
Zangger, Heinrich
zone system, see time zones
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Einstein’s clocks and Poincaré’s maps : empires of time / by Peter Galison.—1st ed.
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1. Time. 2. Relativity (Physics) 3. Einstein, Albert, 1879–1955. 4. Poincaré, Henri, 1854–1912. I. Title.
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