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...towners with a yen to explore will not be idle. Within an hour's drive: the Sundance resort and cultural center, the caverns of Timpanogos Cave National Monument, the vintage coaches of the Heber Valley Railroad and the Mormon historic sites of Salt Lake City...
Smith's company provides tailored forecasts to several transportation clients, including General Motors and Union Pacific. WeatherData helps GM determine when a storm is serious enough to warrant a plant shutdown, a costly decision not taken lightly. For the railroad, WeatherData makes a forecast "13 feet wide and 30,000 miles long," Smith says...
...early 19th century, the coming of the railroad train further sped things up. Paired with increasingly smooth local postal service, the train meant that people thousands of miles apart were separated by only days. With chains of inspiration sprouting wildly, the multinational technical community became an almost unified consciousness. Increasingly, good ideas were...
Then came trains and factories, and with them the need to coordinate the schedules of hundreds and even thousands of people. It was the railroad companies that invented time zones, in 1883. Because of the earth's rotation, the sun was highest at different times in New York City and, say, Washington, which lay a bit farther west. The 11-min. difference in local noon could lead to disaster at intersections...
...Revolving Museum came into being in 1984 when founder Jerry Beck and fellow artists transformed 12 abandoned railroad cars into a lively venue for visual and performance art. Luckily, they have since found lodgings in an abandoned warehouse in Fort Point large enough to accommodate two gallery spaces and 50 artists' studios. Despite such switches, this sporadically nomadic institution continues its commitment to sharing "adventurous" contemporary art with the general public through an admirable number of community outreach and school programs. Boasting an impressive roster of guest curators, The Revolving Museum also shows reliably interesting exhibitions by regional and member...