As the hosts note in the Locomotion episode of Ingenious, railroads changed many aspects of life, allowing people and goods to travel greater distances in much shorter time spans. That all changed with the invention of the railroad. Trains got us to our destinations faster.but complicated time For much of history, people weren’t often traveling far from home, and the slight differences between nearby towns didn’t matter much. This meant that the clocks different cities and towns were set to different times according to location. “High noon” – the point where the sun is highest in the sky – was 12pm, and clocks were set accordingly. This continued well into the 19th century. While later inventions, like clocks, didn’t rely on the sun the way that a sundial or obelisk would, people still used day and night as a reference to set their time. One such invention was time zones.Īs Trace and Susannah note in the Clocks episode of Ingenious, timekeeping has been around for millennia, and many timekeeping inventions used the sun’s position in the sky to determine the time of day. Other times, they remedy issues that new inventions create. Often, these innovations improve upon what came before.
#DIFFERENT TIME ZONES IN USA SERIES#
In the video series Ingenious, hosts Trace Dominguez and Susannah Carroll discuss how innovations build on previous inventions to create things that we all live with and use every day.
Throughout history, inventors have sought ways to solve problems and make people’s lives better.
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