Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
daylight saving was proposed by a bug collector
Franklin's 'proposal' was a joke essay about Parisians wasting candles. The actual first proposal was a New Zealand entomologist in 1895.
4 sources · 19 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “who invented daylight saving time”
- Ended at
- Benjamin Franklin
The Trail
- “who invented daylight saving time” (google.com)
- Daylight saving time (en.wikipedia.org)
- George Hudson (entomologist) (en.wikipedia.org)
wanted more evening daylight to collect insects
- Benjamin Franklin (en.wikipedia.org)
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