Sandford Fleming
Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time.[1] He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organization in Toronto).
Sir Sandford Fleming | |
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Born | (1827-01-07)January 7, 1827 Kirkcaldy, Scotland |
Died | July 22, 1915(1915-07-22) (aged 88) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Occupation(s) | engineer and inventor |
Military Service | |
Allegiance | Canada |
Service/ | Canadian Militia |
Years of service | 1862–1865 |
Rank | Captain |
Unit | 10th Volunteer Battalion of Rifles |
Known for | Inventing, most notably standard time |