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The Canadian engineer Sir Sandford Fleming is best known for promoting which idea?

  • ✓ Worldwide standard time zones
  • ✕ The first telephone exchange Your answer
  • C The snowmobile
  • D The ice resurfacing machine

Not quite.

Fleming proposed dividing the world into 24 time zones after missing a train in Ireland. His ideas led to the 1884 International Meridian Conference and today's system of standard time.

Source: Canadian Encyclopedia, 'Sir Sandford Fleming'

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