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TICKET TO TRANSFORMATION

Printing and Tickets

Standardization of Time

New Leisure Activities

Effects of faster transportation

printed train
tickets Printed train tickets were a very important component to the railway system and help to symbolize the changes of society.

city requires
accuracy and
punctuality This was a new life that permitted large numbers of people to coordinate with one another and meet at specific times. The city now “required a higher degree of accuracy and punctuality.”

standardization of time A new style of life introduced the new standardization of time. The lifestyles of the people were no longer the same as the farmers before, rising and waking at sun up and sunset.

set departure/
arrival times

Train tickets allowed access to specific destinations but required the rider to depart at one of the designated times.

blocks of time Due to the time of the train’s arrival and departure, the train tickets symbolize how the day could be split up into blocks of time (a new standardization of time).

faster days Spliting the day up into sections or blocks of time made the day seem to go by more quickly in comparison to a day meausured by sunrise and sunset.