Town Proclamation - Photocopy of a Proclamation to Conmemorate of Charles Ferdinand Dowd, Inventor of the Standard Time System


November 1983 (Date published)
A photocopy of a Madison proclamation by First Selectman Donald J. LaChance that Friday, November 18, 1983, be a day to honor the accomplishments of Charles Ferdinand Dowd. Dowd invented the standard time system adopted by the railroads on Novemer 18, 1883.   

1 sheet : 21.5 x 28 cm
A2022.DowdCharles.009