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Mike Leahy's Carriacou diary: Time and transmittersCopyrighted Image The Open University / Karen Parker

28 January 2008

You can use water for telling the time - but it's not so easy when trying to do it against the clock. Read more : Mike Leahy's Carriacou diary: Time and transmitters

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By Alun Davies (The Open University)

01 December 2005

Alun C Davies explains how developments in timekeeping and the way people viewed time played an important part in making the industrial revolution possible. Read more : OU on the BBC: What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us - The Industrial Revolution and Time

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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