Cleveland Stories
On the Ball: The Story of Webb C. Ball & the Railroad Watch
Special | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
How the ingenuity of a watchmaker saved lives by getting the railroads to run on time.
Even after Standard Time was adopted in 1883, most trains continued to run on nonstandard local time—and quite a few of trains ran into each other. Watchmaker Webb C. Ball, already the first jeweler to bring accurate time to Cleveland, saw opportunity and began working with the US government and railway companies to bring correct, synchronized time to railroads throughout North America.
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Cleveland Stories is a local public television program presented by Ideastream
Cleveland Stories
On the Ball: The Story of Webb C. Ball & the Railroad Watch
Special | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
Even after Standard Time was adopted in 1883, most trains continued to run on nonstandard local time—and quite a few of trains ran into each other. Watchmaker Webb C. Ball, already the first jeweler to bring accurate time to Cleveland, saw opportunity and began working with the US government and railway companies to bring correct, synchronized time to railroads throughout North America.
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