Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 ‘July 22, 1915) was a prolific Canadian engineer and inventor, known for the creation of the concept of Universal Time (Universal Time, Universal Time or UT) and 24-hour system hours for the 24 time zones job search starting from the Antimeridiano of Greenwich, now called Meridian of 180 degrees and that too is now used as international Linea date change.
He designed the first stamp or stamp of Canada and did a great work of surveying and mapping throughout the country, responsible for carrying out engineering Intercolonial Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (Canadian Pacific Railroad or CPR).
A founding member of the Royal Society of Canada (Royal Society recruitment agency of Canada) and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a scientific and academic organization in Toronto.
Scotland to Canada
Sandford Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife (Scotland) and in 1845, at the age of 17, emigrated to Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada) with his older brother, David. The adventure of his journey took him through many of the Canadian colonies, from the cities of headhunter Quebec and Montreal to Kingston (Ontario), finally settling in Peterborough, also in Ontario, where some cousins recruitment lived.
His inventiveness went into action almost immediately and in 1847 began work on the design of what would be first in line skates. In 1849 he founded the Royal Canadian Institute (Royal Canadian Institute), formally recognized academic institution on manager job November 4, 1851. In this year designed the “3-penny beaver ‘, the first Canadian postage stamp. During this time he worked full time as a geographer ‘cartographer, in the mapping and plans for the Grand Trunk Railway (Grand Trunk Railway).
Railway Engineer
His work on the Grand Trunk Railway won him over time, the post of executive jobs Chief Engineer of Northern Railway in 1855, a company in which I advocate tirelessly on the construction of steel bridges instead of wood for safety reasons. Sandford Fleming proposed in 1858 (first time), the construction of a rail line spanning all of British America from coast to coast. This proposition was ahead of its time, but a few years later, Fleming was appointed engineer in charge of monitoring any proposed mapping of the Intercolonial Railway was to link the Maritime Provinces with Quebec, logistics jobs so it was set during a time Halifax (Nova Scotia) during its construction. In 1872, the recruiter newly formed Canadian government decided to build a line of railroad to the employment agency Pacific Ocean and of course the job of surveying the route fell to Fleming. That same year he organized an expedition to the Pacific which included recruitment agencies a number of surveying and mapping, as well as the naturalist John Macoun and Presbyterian pastor George Munro Grant, clergyman of the Church of Scotland. In the following years he supervised the construction of both the Intercolonial and the Canadian Pacific Railway, a job he completed sales jobs in 1876 before turning over the chief engineer position to his longtime collaborator, Collingwood Schreiber. Fleming was present when Daniel Smith drove the first train in the last stretch to Craigellachie, British Columbia, in 1885, and as a board member of the Canadian Pacific Company (CPC). In 1876 he published his work: The Intercolonial: A Historical Sketch.
Inventor of the Universal Standard Time
After missing a train in Ireland because the printed schedule Decia pm instead of am, Standford Fleming proposed a universal time of 24 headhunters hours not tied to any particular meridian. Then suggested that the time zones could be used locally, but always subordinate to a single schedule for everyone. In a meeting held at the Royal Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879, Sandford Fleming proposed that the standard universal time meridian recruiting of origin would like to Antimeridiano Greenwich, renamed as the 180th meridian . This new proposition came to remedy the problem, since the times everyone should have a single origin (a meridian is taken as origin) to be a coherent system. Continuous schedule to promote his system at major international conferences including the International Meridian Conference held in 1884 in Washington (USA). The conference accepted a different version of Universal Time, but refused recruiters to accept his concept of zones, stating that this was a local matter that was beyond its scope.