Is Big Ben silenced?

It seems that hour "Big Ben" has become a famous old is likely to fall with the giant hands move at any moment, according to deputies in the House of Commons, responsible for maintaining the memorial, which has a 156-year-old.

The leaked reports from the British House of Commons that the world's most famous clock can now stop at any moment, and perhaps "the worst" occurs, which will cause "global embarrassment" of Great Britain.

And Zdat unit discussions within the British Parliament on the matter, after the proposed House of Representatives plan of 29.2 million pounds, for the work of reforms "urgent" famous for an hour, a plan involving the closure for a period of 4 months, will prepare a longer pause in the history of time from the moment of its inception.

These warnings were contained in a report to Congress, which said that there is a danger on the clock and most of their parts.

A source close to the Finance Committee in the House of Commons, which considered the report last week, said that some lawmakers believe that "the worst" that can occur means that the clock may fall, as per Scorpio weight up to 300 kg.

He insists the members of Parliament who are responsible for maintaining the world-famous to move forward in a maintenance plan. The time clock, as expeditiously as possible.

The strongly worded report, which has been directed to MPs that the entire clock mechanism is in danger, as stated in the report: "I have time at the moment chronic problems with bearings behind the scorpions and the pendulum, and these problems can develop at any time, which will cause the stop time - or worse, there is an urgent need to combat the erosion of extreme metal that occurs in the structure of time parts, and repair cracks in the ceiling, and other structural defects in the tower. "



The longest previous close for an hour in 1976, when it stopped intermittently for a period of 26 days, over the nine months to implement some external reforms, and the "BBC" declares through bulletins about the time instead of the chimes of Big Ben.

The night of October 17 / October spokesman for the House of Commons, said he was not making any decisions yet on possible reform proposals.

The hour "Big Ben" months device for measuring time in the world and is considered one of the most important milestones that keen tourists to visit in Britain, has overseen the implementation and design of its tower and British Minister of Works, Benjamin Hall, Benjamin Hall at the time, and when Benjamin was a huge body, they call it the title of Big Ben, has been named in his honor called the bell huge time and later to include the same time, and began work time June 3 year since 1859.

The time is known for its accuracy in the measurement of the finite time, and is considered a symbol ticking Universal Time, Jursha and weighs about 13 tons, the total length Akrbhe 9 and 14 feet, and the clock tower 320 feet tall.

There are times in the tower of St. Stephan in the northern part of the parliament building in the "Westminster" circle in the British capital, it has been designed by "Edmund cried," and made "Edward Dent," who devised the system isolates the work of time and movement of gravity and any external influence through the separation of the pendulum or pendulum for mechanical work time, ease the friction that generates slowness, where the concentration of the pendulum in the insulator Fund was placed under the large clock in the tower.

After the death of "Frederick Dent", and since 1924, Big Ben chimes began to announce the time on Radio BBC BBC a day, many people around the world and are accustomed to hear the ticking before BBC news bulletins.

Source: Daily Mail