Big Ben

The bell of the most famous and largest ever cast at Whitechapel foundry was baptized as 'Big Ben' after a couple of interesting debate in the British parliament of the 19th century. In 1844, the British parliament unanimously passed a decision to incorporate a clock tower at the Houses of Parliament. However, the specifications out of the corridors of parliament a scientific impossibility for even the most adventurous watchmaker - "The first blow of the hour bell should register the time, precise to within one second per day, and furthermore that it should telegraph the performance twice a day to Greenwich Observatory, where records will be saved. "So began the journey timeliness of this landmark London - bell of the Great clock of Westminster, known worldwide as 'Big Ben'.

Timekeeper Westminster was conceptualized by Edmund Beckett Denison and eventually made ​​functional by Edward John Dent in 1854. This clock has an innovative double three legged gravity flight. Daunting task of casting the bell 13.76 tonnes carried by George Mears, the master bell founder and owner of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Founded during the rebuilding of the Parliament, the clock tower went into service on September 7, 1859.