Part 4 - Academic Lecture

Before the railways, towns set their clocks by the position of the ______.

Bristol time was about ______ minutes behind London time.

In 1840 the Great Western Railway began using London time in its ______ and stations.

The clock on Bristol's Corn Exchange has two minute ______.

From the 1850s, time signals were sent from Greenwich by ______.

By 1855, almost all public ______ in Britain showed Greenwich time.

Greenwich Mean Time became Britain's ______ time in 1880.

In the USA, 18 November 1883 was called 'the day of two ______'.

Standard time in the USA was introduced by the railways and not by the ______.

Today, time is kept by ______ clocks.