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the chronometer, an exceptionally accurate clock,
meant that gradually an ever more accurate measure
time became posible, and that of course worked
through other things in the nineteenth century to
produce ever more standardized time. a good
sample of that is the railway, where standard time
based on the meridian was first applied by the great
western railway in 1840 and gradually that standard
time became general
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