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Clock Tower …… The Clock Tower is a turret clock structure at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London, England. It is popularly known as Big Ben, but this name is actually a nickname for the clock‘s main bell. The tower has also been referred to as St. Stephen’s Tower or The Tower of Big Ben, in reference to its bell. ◆Structure ◆ Reliability ◆ Culture The tower was raised as a part of Charles Barrys design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of October 16, 1834. The tower is designed in the Victorian Gothic style, and is 96.3 meters high. Structure The first 61 meters of the structure is the clock tower, consisting of brickwork with stone cladding; the remainder of the towers height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15 by 15 meter raft, made of 3-metre thick concrete,at a depth of 7 meters below ground level. The four clock faces are 55 meters above ground. Due to ground conditions present since construction, the tower leans slightly to the north-west, by roughly 220 millimeters .Due to thermal effects it oscillates annually by a few millimeters east and west. ◆Clock faces ◆The main bell ◆Other bells Clock faces The clock faces were once large enough to allow the Clock Tower to be the largest four-faced clock in the world. The clock mechanism itself was completed by 1854, but the tower was not fully constructed until four years later in 1858. The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin. During World War II, the Palace of Westminster was hit by German bombing , destroying the House of Commonsand causing damage to the towers western clock face. 返回 The main bell The main bell, officially known as the Great Bell, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. The bell is better known by the nickname Big Ben. The name Big Ben was first given to a 14.5 tonne (16 ton) hour bell . The bell was never officially n
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