Watching Michael Portillo on Great Train Journeys, I didn't realise that up until 1840, different cities in England had different time zones and it was only Brunel who, because of the problems with making railway timetables, invented Railway time and convinced the other rail companies to adopt it. This was eventually adopted worldwide.
We think of ourselves on being the enlightened generation, we take so many things for granted, but we are not even close to the vision of people like Brunel.
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