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Ben is 1 of London’s best-known tourist landmarks [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and looks truly spectacular at night while the clock faces are illuminated. One can even understand when parliament is in session, for a light brights above the clock face. The bell was named after the first commissioner of goes, Sir Benjamin Hall.
The 4 dials of the clock are 23 feet square, the minute hand is 14 feet long and the figures are 2 feet high. Minutely regulated with a stack of coins placed on the huge pendulum [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Big Ben is an excellent timekeeper, which has rarely stopped.
This bell came originally from the age Palace of Westminster; it was given to the Dean of St. Paul’s by William III. Before returning to Westminster to hang in its present home, it was refashioned in White church in 1858. The BBC first broadcast the chimes on the 31st December 1923 - there is a loudspeaker in the turret connected to Broadcasting House.
Big Ben was 1st broadcast above New Year's Eve in 1923. The light above the timer is lit meantime the Commons is sitting. Big Ben weighs over 13 tons.The timer tower of the Palace of Westminster took 13 years to create, and was completed in 1856. The spire is 316 feet high. The spire namely mushrooms on the belfry is built with one steel border [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and it is this frame which assists the weight of the alarms. A staircase rises up inside the tower, and a ascend is rewarded at eminent views from the belfry level. Several small chambers are built into the lower part of the tower, including a small prison cell.
The actors iron frame of the clock face was designed by AW Pugin, who was responsible as many of the Gothic decorative elements of the Palace of Westminster. The dials are 23 feet in diameter and the faces themselves are not solid, merely are composed of numerous small chips of opal glass, assembled favor a stained glass window. Several of the chief pieces of cup can be removed to alabsent fromspection of the hands from inside the clock tower. The numbers on the clock faces are every two feet high. An inscription in Latin beneath every clock face translates as “God save our Queen Victoria I”.
At the period of its construction the clock machinery was lightly the largest in the earth, and it is still within the largest today. The clock mechanism, devised by Edmund Beckett Denison, has proven to be remarkably exact over the years, granting small corrections to the clock's rate to be made by placing pennies on a small shoulder of the clock’s pendulum.
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