Sidetracked Down the Middle

So I guess add "campanilismo" to the list of words with surprisingly recent origins. I wish I knew how to embed the images properly, but Google Ngram Viewer supports the thesis that "sidetrack" and "campanilismo" emerged after the advent of railroads and time zones respectively: sidetrack and campanilismo.

By the way, I am not sure that Kindleberger correctly characterized the International Meridian Conference, but I am far too lazy to investigate further.