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    Sir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated...
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  • Fleming College, also known as Sir Sandford Fleming College, is an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...
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    Sir Sandford Fleming Park is a 95-acre (38 ha) Canadian urban park located in the community of Jollimore in Halifax Regional Municipality. It is also known...
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    death. Scottish-born Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming proposed a worldwide system of time zones in 1876 - see Sandford Fleming § Inventor of worldwide standard...
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    twice (156 strokes), or even 1 to 6 repeated four times (84 strokes). Sandford Fleming, the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Intercolonial Railway, was an...
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    zones are based on proposals by Scottish Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming, who pioneered the use of the 24-hour clock, the world's time zone...
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    John Polanyi Collegiate Institute (JPCI), formerly Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is housed...
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  • The Sandford Fleming Medal was instituted in 1982 by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience). It consists of the Sandford Fleming Medal...
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  • time standard, so the time offsets are commonly understood as UTC. Sandford Fleming devised a system assigning the letters A–Y excluding J to 1-hour time...
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    on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Creet, Mario (1990). "Sandford Fleming and Universal Time". Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History...
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