The tower

A clock tower was built at Westminster in

1288. The present tower was erected as
part of Charles Barry's plan to build a
new palace after the old Westminster
Palace was destroyed by fire on the night
of October 16, 1834.
Faults and other stops
Big Ben
The watch
Big Ben was the largest four-sided
clock in the world, surpassed in the
meantime by the Allen-Bradley
Clock Tower in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. But this watch has no
bell, so the Westminster watch is still
the largest four-sided watch and bell
in the world.

Although the clock worked with

great precision over time, its
operation sometimes suffered due
to events. Thus, in 1916, during
the First World War, the bells
were stopped and did not ring for
two years to avoid attacks by
German zeppelins. Also, during
World War II, although the bells What is Big Ben
continued to ring, the faces of the
clock were no longer lit, so as not
Big Ben is the largest four-sided bell clock, and the third
to help the Luftwaffe pilots. tallest clock tower in the world. The watch was put into
operation on May 31, 1859.
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