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When people began living together, they needed some way of telling the time. One of the ways of telling the time was the sun. When a man planned to meet another he pointed to a place in the sky and said, “I’ll meet you when the sun is there”. It was also possible to tell the time by shadows. Many trees and cliffs casting shadows served as timepieces. At night one could tell the time by the stars. The first timepiece anyone made was a sundial. A sundial tells the time by shadows. The first sundial known was made in Egypt about 3,500 years ago. It was common practice to divide the time between sunrise and sunset into 12 equal parts, or hours.

No one knows why 12 was chosen as the number of hours for the day. Perhaps it was because of the number of months in the year. Later the night was divided into 12 hours, too.

More than 2,000 years ago was invented the water clock. Water clocks were often used in Greece.

The first true clocks were probably made nearly 1,000 years ago. The first watches were made about 500 years ago.

As everyone knows, there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. We probably have 60 because 60 was a very important number to the people who lived in ancient Babylon, a land from which many of our ideas came.

We know that the time is not the same all over the world. For this reason, the world has been divided into time zones. All the places in each zone have the same time. It’s called standard time.

The biggest clock bell is in Britain. This universal symbol of London is called Big Ben. This is the name of 13-ton bell on which the hours are struck. The bell and the clock are on the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament. The Clock Tower is 97 meters tall. It has a huge clock – each of the four dials is 97 meters in diameter.

Big Ben sounds the hours and quarters. It’s bell installed in 1858 and named after Sir Benjamin Hall. Benjamin Hall was a very big man. He had the job to see that the bell was put up. One day he said in Parliament, “Shall we call the bell

St Stephen’s ?”. But someone said for a joke, “Why not call it Big Ben ?”. Now the bell is known all over the world by that name.

Vocabulary:

shadow –тінь Babylon – Вавилон

cliff –скеля dial -циферблат

cast –кидати, розподіляти install –встановлювати

sundial –сонячний годинник St Stephen –святий Стівен

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