Sir Sandford Fleming ( English Sandford Fleming ; January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915 ) - engineer who created the railway network of Canada .
| Sir Sandford Fleming | |
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| Date of Birth | January 7, 1827 |
| Place of Birth | Kirkcaldy , Scotland |
| Date of death | July 22, 1915 (88 years old) |
| A place of death | Halifax Canada |
| Citizenship |  United Kingdom  Canada |
| Occupation | engineer, inventor |
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Thanks to him, the world became divided into time zones . This idea was put forward in 1869 by the director of the Saratoga Springs school, Charles F. Daud, and Sir Sandford Fleming supported it in the most energetic way. He is also the designer of the first Canadian postage stamps.
Literature
- Creet, Mario, "Fleming, Sir Stanford" , Fleming, Sir Stanford , vol. 14 , < http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/fleming_sandford_14E.html >
- Regehr, TD (July 24, 2015), "Sir Sandford Fleming" , Sir Sandford Fleming (online ed.), Historica Canada , < https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-sandford-fleming >
- Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time .
- Fleming, Sandford (1876), Terrestrial Time , Canadian Institute , < https://archive.org/details/cihm_03138 >