Time zone chart of the world
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- Created Date
- 1927
- Description
Annotated by Charles A. Lindbergh showing New York to Paris flight route and note in corner. "No. 5192." Includes "Explanation". "Used for laying out route for New York to Paris flight, San Diego, California, 1927, C.A.L." -- handwritten by Charles A. Lindbergh in the lower right corner. Indexed in: Manuscript and annotated maps in the American Geographical Society Library: a cartobibliography.
Annotated to read: “Used for laying out route for New York to Paris flight, San Diego, California, 1927 C.A.L.” While Ryan Airlines, Inc. of San Diego was constructing Lindbergh’s plane, Spirit of St. Louis, he was busy obtaining charts and plotting his course (Lindbergh 1927, p. 201-202). In order to obtain charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, Lindbergh had to fly to San Pedro, California. In his book The Spirit of St. Louis (1953), Lindbergh describes purchasing a number of charts at a store in San Pedro including this Time zone chart of the world: “The salesman pulls out two oblong sheets. They're Mercator's projections and –yes, I'm in luck—they extend inland far enough to include New York and Paris. Then, like stumbling over a nugget of gold, I see a gnomonic projection covering them both…Rummaging around still farther, I locate a time-zone chart of the world, a chart of magnetic variation, and others showing prevailing winds over the Atlantic for April, May, and June. I buy the
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1:39,000,000
- Creator
United States. Hydrographic Office
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Hydrographic Office
- Subjects
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
Time--Systems and standards--Maps
World maps - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- United States. Hydrographic Office. Time zone chart of the world. 1927. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/863. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- United States. Hydrographic Office, (1927) Time zone chart of the world. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/863
- MLA citation style
- United States. Hydrographic Office. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/863>.