West Jersey Chapter’s June virtual membership meeting was held on Monday, June 28, and featured member Scott Barnes with a program on the life of William Frederick Allen (1846-1915), a civil engineer and New Jersey native who was instrumental in the founding of Wenonah in 1870. Later in his career, he tackled the thorny problem of how to synchronize clocks across the vast expanse of the United States, at a time when railroads were enabling rapid travel from place to place. The time zone system he perfected for American railroad use is largely the same one used worldwide today. You can play a recording of the presentation by clicking the image or by clicking here. The length of the program is 1:10:34.