Big ben was completed in 1859 and is the biggest, most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world. Big ben had its 50th birthday anniversary on May 2009.
Big ben is the most tourist attractive in the UK.
Tower:
Big ben is also called the Elizabeth Tower and before that it was also called the clock tower. The reason why big ben was called Elizabeth Tower was to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Elizabeth 2 in 2012 and before that it was just known as the clock tower and it was named that because it was a big clock on a tower. But the bell was actually originally meant to be called Royal Victoria.
Big ben was maid as a replacement for the old palace of Westminster. Westminster was destroyed in a fire on October 1834. A short time after big ben had opened, it cracked. It was because a lighter hammer was fitted and the bell rotated to present an undamaged section to the hammer. And that is now how we hear the bell.
Facts:
The bell of big ben rings every 15 minutes and the sound can be heard for a radius of up to 5 miles.
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