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Name of the tower came from the name of the bell, weighing 13.7 tons, installed inside it.
The history of its construction. A terrible fire that happened on October Absorbed most part of the parliamentary building. In 1837, the ascent to the throne of Queen Victoria, the architect Charles Barry presented the project of reconstruction of the residence. Neo-Gothic style building just demanded the clock tower. Charles Berry, an architect who built the Palace of Westminster, in 1844 he asked the parliament for the construction hours on the tower of St. Stephen. Construct hours took mechanic Benjamin Valyami. It was agreed that the new hours will be the largest and most accurate in the world, and their bell - the most difficult to call him was heard, if not throughout the empire, then, at least, on the whole city.
When the project was completed hours, between its author and the authorities began arguing about the accuracy required hours. Astronomer Royal, Professor George Airy, insisted that the first strike the bell every hour was performed with an accuracy of one second. The accuracy was checked every hour by telegraph, linking the Big Ben from the Greenwich Observatory.
In 1851, Edmund Beckett Dennison took the cast bell tower clock. And wanting to master changed the shape and composition of the alloy of the future of creation. I like better, but it turned out - as always. Already during the first test of the "bell cracked.
British came to seek another specialist. He was a master bell affairs George Mears, who poured in 1859, a bell weighing 13.72 tons, a height of 200 cm and a diameter of 274 Name of the bell (in one version) was in honor of Lord Benjamin Hall, who in Parliament had nicknamed BIG BEN .
The tower was built in 1858, the clock tower were set in motion May 21, 1859. However, something did not work and two months and the bell could not resist. Three years the British stayed in the mouth, have not done for the new bell - the lighter hammer. Weight of the new hammer of 200 kg. 1st blow of the hammer on the Bin-bin coincides with the first second of each hour. That cracked bell still works today and has been 150 years. Incidentally, in early December 1923, on BBC radio began broadcasting the hour of battle. The bell of Big Ben and its surrounding other small bells ringing knock out the following words: "Through this hour the Lord keeps me, and his strength will not allow anyone to stumble."
Big Ben has become one of the most recognizable symbols of Britain.
It is estimated that the minute hands are held for a year, a total distance of 190 km.
Big Ben - the symbol of the greatest period of the dawn of the country. And the Latin inscription at the base of each of the 4 dials: "God Save the Queen Victoria 1 - a personal tribute of respect for the monarch, in which both arose such a notion as the British Empire.
Name of the tower came from the name of the bell, weighing 13.7 tons, installed inside it.
The history of its construction. A terrible fire that happened on October Absorbed most part of the parliamentary building. In 1837, the ascent to the throne of Queen Victoria, the architect Charles Barry presented the project of reconstruction of the residence. Neo-Gothic style building just demanded the clock tower. Charles Berry, an architect who built the Palace of Westminster, in 1844 he asked the parliament for the construction hours on the tower of St. Stephen. Construct hours took mechanic Benjamin Valyami. It was agreed that the new hours will be the largest and most accurate in the world, and their bell - the most difficult to call him was heard, if not throughout the empire, then, at least, on the whole city.
When the project was completed hours, between its author and the authorities began arguing about the accuracy required hours. Astronomer Royal, Professor George Airy, insisted that the first strike the bell every hour was performed with an accuracy of one second. The accuracy was checked every hour by telegraph, linking the Big Ben from the Greenwich Observatory.
In 1851, Edmund Beckett Dennison took the cast bell tower clock. And wanting to master changed the shape and composition of the alloy of the future of creation. I like better, but it turned out - as always. Already during the first test of the "bell cracked.
British came to seek another specialist. He was a master bell affairs George Mears, who poured in 1859, a bell weighing 13.72 tons, a height of 200 cm and a diameter of 274 Name of the bell (in one version) was in honor of Lord Benjamin Hall, who in Parliament had nicknamed BIG BEN .
The tower was built in 1858, the clock tower were set in motion May 21, 1859. However, something did not work and two months and the bell could not resist. Three years the British stayed in the mouth, have not done for the new bell - the lighter hammer. Weight of the new hammer of 200 kg. 1st blow of the hammer on the Bin-bin coincides with the first second of each hour. That cracked bell still works today and has been 150 years. Incidentally, in early December 1923, on BBC radio began broadcasting the hour of battle. The bell of Big Ben and its surrounding other small bells ringing knock out the following words: "Through this hour the Lord keeps me, and his strength will not allow anyone to stumble."
Big Ben has become one of the most recognizable symbols of Britain.
It is estimated that the minute hands are held for a year, a total distance of 190 km.
Big Ben - the symbol of the greatest period of the dawn of the country. And the Latin inscription at the base of each of the 4 dials: "God Save the Queen Victoria 1 - a personal tribute of respect for the monarch, in which both arose such a notion as the British Empire.