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The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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The History of Fire Clocks

Timekeeping is important in religion, navigation and commerce. But also timekeeping can be personal - so when do clocks enter the home? We start to see what we call watches first made in the very early 1500s. And this ties closely to that idea of time as a capitalist point of view rather than money.

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