In 1876, Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming missed a train. Fleming had assumed the time printed in the railroad’s time booklet was in the afternoon, rather than in the morning, and found ...

Today's Google Doodle is a tribute to Sandford Fleming on his 190th birthday. New Delhi: Google has honoured Sandford Fleming, a Canadian inventor and engineer of Scottish birth known for his ...

The scientist is credited for inventing the idea of standard time. Prior to the revolutionary idea, regions were mainly dependent on solar times. (Source: Google.com) Google worldwide is celebrating ...

As well as laying the foundations for the time zone system we use today, the Scottish polymath built major railways and designed Canada's first postage stamp SIR Sanford Fleming designed Canada’s ...

Before Fleming had come around with the idea for a standardised time zone, different regions had been mainly dependent on the solar time. Google celebrated Sir Sandford Fleming’s 190th birth ...

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Sandford Fleming, the engineer and inventor who changed our notion of time, turns 190 today. Most well-known for proposing standardised world time zones, a Google Doodle has even paid tribute to him ...

Sir Sandford Fleming, born on January 7, 1827, was a Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor. Fleming invented the concept of worldwide standard time zones. The search engine giant, Google, has paid ...

It doesn't look like much from the outside — an abandoned building with boarded-up windows and doors. But some Halifax residents say the summer cottage belonging to the so-called "father of standard ...

SIR Sanford Fleming designed Canada’s first postage stamp, built major railways and founded a world-renowned scientific body – yet he is best known for thinking up worldwide standard time. Now, a ...