Sandford Fleming
(1827-1915)
Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor
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Sir Sandford Fleming KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.
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7 January 1827 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
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| Died |
22 July 1915 (aged 88) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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