'''Sir Sandford Fleming''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KCMG}} (January 7, 1827 &ndash; July 22, 1915) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[engineer]] and [[inventor]]. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He proposed worldwide [[standard time]] zones,<ref>Sandford Fleming was not the first to propose universal time and worldwide standard time zones. Both were invented 21 years earlier by the Italian mathematician [[Quirico Filopanti]] in his book ''Miranda!'' published in 1858. However, his idea was unknown outside the pages of his book until long after his death, so it did not influence the adoption of time zones during the 19th century. Filopanti proposed 24 hourly time zones, which he called "longitudinal days", the first centered on the meridian of Rome. He also proposed a universal time to be used in astronomy and telegraphy. See [http://www.scienzagiovane.unibo.it/english/scientists/filopanti-1.html Quirico Filopanti] from the [[University of Bologna]], Italy.</ref> designed Canada's first [[postage stamp]], left a huge body of [[surveying]] and [[cartography|map making]], engineered much of the [[Intercolonial Railway]] and the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]], and was a founding member of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] and founder of the [[Royal Canadian Institute]], a science organization in [[Toronto]].