Big Ben

The following text has information about Big Ben. As first we want tell you that Big Ben is in England. Often people name the tower with Big Ben although the clock is Big Ben. Now the tower of Big Ben is renamed into Elizabeth Tower which is 315 feet (96.0 m) high. Big Ben weighs 17t.
 The tower was completed in 1858. The pendulum is installed within an enclosed windproof box sunk beneath the clock room. The clock is very interesting. It is 13 feet (4.0 m) long, weighs 660 pounds (300 kg) and beats in a 2 second rhythm every full hour. The clockwork mechanism is in a room below and weighs 5 tons.
On May 10^th 1941, a German bombing raid damaged two of the clock's dials and sections of the tower's stepped roof and destroyed the House of Commons’ chamber.