Very good SK, LMHO. Big Ben, now what can you say about BIG BEN? LOL.
A fella by the name of Denison invented the double three-legged gravity escapement. This escapement provides the best separation between pendulum and clock mechanism. Did you know that the pendulum is installed within an enclosed windproof box beneath the clock room? Its 13 feet long and weighs in at 660 pounds, it beats every 2 seconds.
The clockwork mechanism in a room below and I bet ya didn’t know it weighs in at a staggering 5 tons. On top of the pendulum is a small stack of old penny coins these are to adjust the time of the clock.
On the 11 August 2007 the clock was due for its 6-week stoppage for maintenance. Bearings in the clock's chime train and the great bell striker had to be replaced. During the maintenance work the clock was not driven by the original mechanism, but for the first time by an electric motor.
Not a lot of people know that lol.
What brain-dead idiot told you Big Ben has batteries? Be sensible and show yourself up to be someone who doesn't tolerate gormless remarks by a person who is obviously a complete pillock.
Confront this idiot person forthwith: ask how he/she thinks that a 15 ton bronze bell needs batteries; and then ask what type of battery he/she thinks it would be, and how many.
Your sensible retort to this most risible of suggestions will show that you have more brains and sense than an intestinal tape worm.
PS. If your source was thinking of the clock itself (which is not, as you know, Big Ben) then the secret is that it is wound up every eight days by the enslaved descendents of captured French prisoners of war captured in the campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte 200 years ago. The High Warden of the Tower calls them "Les Pixies" as a sort of affectionate joke.
There are no batteries! it is what you would call a wind up clock, a man winds it up every three days.( by the way, big ben is the big bell inside the clock,where the clock is was named the queen elizabeth tower when the queen had been on the throne for 60 years in 2012)
Big Ben works in the clock dept there and he changes the batteries and on his days off his son Ben Junior
will change them.
Big Ben is a bell and it doesn't need a battery.
The clock that rings the bell known as 'Big Ben' is clockwork, not electric.
Nobody does. Big Ben is a bell and doesn't need batteries. You just hit it. If you're referring to the clock, it's clockwork and has to be kept wound up.
Big Ben is clockwork with an AC back up if required. I see you poo poo the guy holding is nose? He's given you an accurate description. I have little doubt he's found all this information from the internet,lol
Why would anyone change batteries in a cast tin/copper bell ?
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What batteries?
