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Sir Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming was born at Kirkcaldy, Scotland in January 7, 1827.
Sandford died at Halifax in July 22, 1915. He was a civil engine er. He
was Canada's foremost railway surveyor and construction engine er of the
19th century and a distinguished inventor and scientist.
He came to Canada in 1845 and , after studying science and eng ineering
in both Scotland and Can ....
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.... advocate of a telecommunication
cable from Canada to Australia, which he believ e would become a vital
communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was
successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a
satisfactory world system of keeping time. The railway had made obsolete
the old system where every major centre set it s clocks according to local
astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated t he adoption of a standard or
mean ....
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