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is the nickname of the main bell of the clock tower of Westminster Palace .There is a tradition to baptize the church bells, and give them the name of a saint, but this bell, likely got his nickname in honor of Sir Benjamin Hall, who led the work on the installation of the bell.Weighing nearly 14 tons and a height of three meters, is the second largest bell of Great Britain after the Big Paul - the bells of St. .Paul's in London .Over time, Big Ben came to be called not only a bell, but the clock, and the whole clock tower .Tower - the last work of the architect Augustus Pyudzhina - built in 1858 in neo-Gothic style.This is part of the reconstructed after a fire in 1834 the Palace of Westminster .The tower height is 96.3 meters.Unfortunately, foreign tourists are not allowed inside the tower, but the citizens of the United Kingdom can enjoy it with the organized tour with your Member of Parliament.No elevator in the tower, the top are 334 stone steps .Clock Tower - the world's largest chimes with 4 dials.Diameter of the dial around 7 meters, length 2.7 meters clockwise, minute - 4.3 meters .Watches are famous for the accuracy of its stroke .Near the top of the pendulum kept ancient coins in a penny, which is used to adjust the mechanism.Enough to put a coin on the pendulum, and the clock will change by 0.4 seconds per day .New Year's Eve 1962 heavy snowfall caused icing shooter, they began to move slowly, and the pendulum, as conceived, is disconnected from the main machine to avoid breakdowns and swung idly .Big Ben ushered in 1962 with a ten-minute delay.Big Ben has become a calling card of London and its symbol.If some film must show that the action takes place in the UK - in the background silhouetted Big Ben .It is used in the intro to the news program, and the chime of bells is the call sign for the BBC BBС.