Wednesday, April 26, 2017

RECOMMENDED VIDEO: HOW DOES BIG BEN KEEP ACCURATE TIME?

A fascinating video of how time is kept by Big Ben, the clock in the tower at the north end of Westminster Palace (although the Clock Tower itself is usually also called Big Ben, its offical name is Elizabeth Tower).





Don't miss the info on the designer of the tower, the clock face and its dials, Augustus Pugin. The clock's mechanism is the work of Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC, and of Sir George Biddell Airy KCB PRS, mathematician and astronomer (and Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881!).

Hat tip my uncle R.


MFBB.

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