Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915)
Sir
Sandford Fleming
Portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
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/branch
Canadian Militia
Years of service
1862–1865
Rank
Captain
Unit
10th Volunteer Battalion of Rifles
Known for
Inventing, most notably standard time
Sir Sandford FlemingFRSC 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).
^Creet, Mario (1990). "Sandford Fleming and Universal Time". Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 14 (1–2): 66–89. doi:10.7202/800302ar.
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