See and Hear the King of All Hours

When the red rooster engulfed the Palace of Westminster in 1834, British officials held a competition. Who can make the best design for the new Parliament building? The winner is an elaborate Gothic-style palace by Sir Charles Barry, including a four-hour side of the tower is very impressive. Property Management Office Palace down command to create a "King of All Hours, the largest in the world."
This clock is one of the famous monuments of London, and a distinctive sound known throughout the world. His name is Big Ben, although the name was originally only aimed at the bell. This world famous clock is the most amazing engineering.

Very Challenging task
96-meter-tall clock tower was started in 1843 is built. Three years later, they began looking for a skilled craftsman who can make very high precision clock, with the difference in time not more than one second per hour. The task is very challenging. At the peak of the high open tower, clock needles is easily buffeted by wind, snow, and ice-besides being a place perched pigeons! Such disturbances will affect the pendulum clock, which determines its order rate precision clock. While the experts argue about how to solve the problem, a horolog (scientists measure time), Edmund Beckett Denison, submit an acceptable plan, and a leading watchmaker assigned to him.
Two years later, the clock was completed, but he had to sit languishing in the watchmaker's workshop for five years until the tower was completed. During that time, Danison successfully designed a tool that can protect the pendulum clock from outside interference, thus ensuring precision clock.

Big Ben's Birthday
After the clock mechanism was completed, the next step is to make his bells. A welding metal in the northeastern part of the UK welding bell. The result is greater than anticipated and weighing more than 16 tons! Once the weight of the bell is so damaging the deck of a ship transporting them to London. Finally, the ship arrived at its destination. Once appointed to the mainland, bells and even then transported by special train drawn by 16 white horses. Then, the bell hung on a metal frame in front of Parliament building to be exercised.
Many large bell has a name and a giant bell was also named Big Ben. Why? No one knows for sure. Some say that the name of the bell was probably taken from the nickname of Sir Benjamin Hall, the big man who works in Parliament. Others argue that the bell was taking the name Benjamin Caunt, the famous heavyweight boxer at the time. Whatever its origin, the name Big Ben is no longer aimed at the large bell, but now generally refer clock, bell, and tower.

Disaster struck twice
Big Ben bell bat first seemed less severe, then replaced with a big bat weighing 660 pounds. However, after pilot-tested for many months, there was a disaster. The bell was cracked and could not be repaired. Big Ben should be removed from the skeleton. Bell metal melted, then cast again into the bell which weighs 13.7 tons. Again, many people stood on the sidewalk when the train carrying the new bells were moving towards the Houses of Parliament.
A few months later, the tower was completed. Several groups of workers tirelessly hoisted the Big Ben and put it on top of the tower. Finally, the giant bells joined with four other smaller bells which ring every quarter hour. Furthermore, the heavy clock mechanism installed. The "King of All the King" finally ready for action-or so it seems.
In July 1859, Big Ben started clanging every hour. However, this victory did not last long. In early October, the great bell cracked again! Moving a large bell from the tower impossible. So, the workers rotate it a quarter turn so that the bell of his bat will not hit the part that cracked. Then, to prevent disasters in the future, even a lighter bat in pairs. After three years, Big Ben back to work! Cracks are still there, and that's what produces the sound "dong" is typical.

Historical milestones
In 1924, the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, a microphone permanently installed in the clock tower and began to broadcast regularly Clank Big Ben as a marker of national time. Eight years later, the audience throughout the British Commonwealth also connected, and today's Big Ben's a beautiful sound reverberated around the world via the BBC World Service.
Although the clock and bell-bell survived the bombing during World War II, in 1976 the metal from his voice mechanisms with age resulting in mechanical damage that destroyed most of the space clock. However, the bell was not damaged, and within a few weeks, he again rang every hour. It took nine months to clock it back to work.
For a time, Big Ben is the largest clock in the world, and yet it is a mechanical timepiece of the most accurate. Distinctive melody often imitated and played at other hours, small or large, in many countries. So, it is not surprising that Big Ben has become a symbol of British identity and its capital. Big Ben is really worth nicknamed "King of All Hours"!