Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Big Ben / London


Big Ben Big Ben is the hour in the famous city of London, the most popular device for measuring time in the world, and is considered one of the most important monuments that tourists keen to visit in Britain.

  Has overseen the implementation and design of tower and the Minister of Works, British Benjamin Hall Benjamin Hall at the time, and what was Benjamin huge body, they call him the nickname Big Ben, has been named in his honor on the bell at the huge and later to include the time itself, and began work time since June 3 in 1859 AD

Known for infinite time accuracy in the measurement of time, and the ticking is a symbol of the Universal Time, and weighs about Jursha thirteen tons, and the length of Akrbhe 9 and 14 feet. There is time in the tower of St. Stephan in the northern part of the parliament building in a circle and Westminster in the British capital, and the clock tower 320 feet tall.

  The time has been designed by Edmund Beckett, Edward Dent, manufacture and after his death, Frederick Dent .. Since 1924, started to beat Big Ben across the radio announces the time of «me. Me. CNN» BBC daily. He used a lot of people around the world to hear the ticking before BBC news bulletins

 

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