Sandford Fleming

<p>Sir Sandford Fleming <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada/80JypAJ7">FRSC</a> <a href="/facts/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George/vMrNB6V0">KCMG</a> (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian <a href="/facts/Engineer/ph4TnHnG">engineer</a> and <a href="/facts/Inventor/P3LdUHBY">inventor</a>. Born and raised in <a href="/facts/Scotland/VGwbbxB2">Scotland</a>, he immigrated to <a href="/facts/Colonial_Canada/RmsKEdxu">colonial Canada</a> at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard <a href="/facts/Time_zones/x5JzdlX8">time zones</a>, a <a href="/facts/Prime_meridian/d8KLy9r2">prime meridian</a>, and use of the <a href="/facts/24-hour_clock/25MX89DX">24-hour clock</a> as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of <a href="/facts/Coordinated_Universal_Time/2EnjfSyu">Coordinated Universal Time</a>. He designed Canada's first <a href="/facts/Postage_stamp/T8gb7wCP">postage stamp</a>, produced a great deal of work in the fields of <a href="/facts/Surveying/qchGcnRC">land surveying</a> and <a href="/facts/Cartography/8YdDAAeX">map making</a>, engineered much of the <a href="/facts/Intercolonial_Railway/5LRfFo3N">Intercolonial Railway</a> and the first several hundred kilometers of the <a href="/facts/Canadian_Pacific_Railway/4GQvYUBk">Canadian Pacific Railway</a>, and was a founding member of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Canada/betD1djj">Royal Society of Canada</a> and founder of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Canadian_Institute/r8EaWtYX">Canadian Institute</a> (a science organization in <a href="/facts/Toronto/cnXH7881">Toronto</a>).
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Sandford Fleming