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Big Ben Aden on 20 March 2010 Big Ben Aden. View from the inner roadstead. Postcard of Tawahi. Big Ben Aden (Arabic: بيغ بن عدن [1]) is a clock tower built by British engineers, along with locals, beside Aden Harbour in Yemen during the period that Aden Province (later called Aden Colony) was a territory within the British Empire.
The main bell, officially known as the 'Great Bell' but better known as Big Ben, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. It sounds an E-natural. [ 72] The original bell was a 16 ton (16.3- tonne) hour bell, cast on 6 August 1856 in Stockton-on-Tees by John Warner & Sons. [ 4]
[1] In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
The original clock tower had a granite balcony 150 feet (46 m) above the sidewalk, and four clock faces measuring 15 feet (4.6 m) in diameter. [4] [12] Within the clock tower, there were three additional stories above the eighth floor, but they were used for storage. [10] The main roof topped out at 155 feet (47 m) above ground level.
In fact, that title has belonged to the Minneapolis City Hall clock since 1909. Each hour hand of the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower is 15.8 feet (4.8 m) long and weighs 490 pounds (220 kg). Each minute hand is 20 feet (6.1 m) long and weighs 550 pounds (250 kg). The hour markings are 4 feet (1.2 m) high. [4]
The tower features a clock face on each side that is 26 ft (7.9 m) in diameter. [19] [20] The clock faces are larger in diameter than those on Big Ben which measure 23 ft (7 m). [21] City Hall's clock was designed by Warren Johnson and built in 1898. [22] The 1937 Philadelphia Guide noted that "shortly after the clock was installed the city ...
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
The original World Trade Center ( WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at ...