WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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telephone and telegraph operators
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Railroad companies and train travelers
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manufacturers who dealt in interstate trade
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factory owners whose workers had set schedules
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historically, standard time was established during the 19th century to aid weather forecasting and train travel. Applied globally in the 20th century, the geographical regions became time zones.
Detailed explanation-2: -With the proliferation of railroads, faster travel became possible across many cities and travelers could sometimes arrive at an earlier local time than the one they had left. Due to this lack of time standardization, schedules on the same tracks often could not be coordinated, resulting in collisions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Each time zone is set one hour apart, which allowed the railroads to coordinate train schedules across the entire country.
Detailed explanation-4: -Efficient rail transportation demanded a more uniform time-keeping system. Rather than turning to the federal governments of the United States and Canada to create a North American system of time zones, the powerful railroad companies took it upon themselves to create a new time code system.