Big Ben The Great Clock And The Bells At The Palace Of Westminster
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Author | : Chris McKay |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010-05-27 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0191615080 |
This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock's 150th anniversary in 2009. The book begins by taking the reader through a typical visit to the Clock Tower, and then begins the history of the palace of Westminster, covering the fire of 1834, the building of the New Houses of Parliament and development of the clock and the bells, going into detail on their design and installation. The book covers the famous cracking of the current bell Big Ben in 1859, with sketches of all the characters involved, the two world wars, and the disaster of 1976. The book ends with a detailed technical description of the clock mechanism. The book is richly illustrated, and will appeal not only to clockmakers and horologists, but to bell enthusiasts, and those with an interest in our rich Victorian heritage.
Author | : Peter MacDonald |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2005-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752495496 |
Big Ben is perhaps the most famous clock in the world. Peter Macdonald tells its story, from its conception in the 1830s to its establishment as the national timepiece and the symbol of Britain up to the present day.
Author | : Alfred Gillgrass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Big Ben (Clock) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Shenton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0198707193 |
The saga of the epic battle to re-build the Houses of Parliament after the great fire of 1834, this is also the story of how the greatest construction programme in Britain for centuries produced one of the most famous and instantly recognizable buildings ever built
Author | : Edward J. Gillin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108419666 |
Edward J. Gillin explores the extraordinary role of scientific knowledge in the building of the Houses of Parliament in Victorian Britain.
Author | : Edward J. Gillin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1108321828 |
The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction of Britain's legislature presents an extraordinary story in which politicians and officials laboured to make their new Parliament the most radical, modern building of its time by using the very latest scientific knowledge. Experimentalists employed the House of Commons as a chemistry laboratory, geologists argued over the Palace's stone, natural philosophers hung meat around the building to measure air purity, and mathematicians schemed to make Parliament the first public space where every room would have electrically-controlled time. Through such dramatic projects, Edward J. Gillin redefines our understanding of the Palace of Westminster and explores the politically troublesome character of Victorian science.
Author | : James W. Benson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter MacDonald |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-10-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0752495496 |
Big Ben is perhaps the most famous clock in the world. This title tells its story, from its conception in the 1830s, after fire destroyed the ancient Palace of Westminster, to its establishment as the national timepiece and the symbol of Britain up to the present day.
Author | : Edward J. Gillin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2022-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022678777X |
"In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. Where other studies have focused on vision in Victorian England, Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality, making the claim that the development of the natural sciences in Britain in this era cannot be understood without attending to how the study of sound and music contributed to the fashioning of new scientific knowledge. Gillin's book is about how scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to not only musical sound but also the phenomenon of sound in non-musical contexts, specifically, the cacophony of British industrialization, and he analyzes the debates between figures from disparate fields over the proper account of musical experience. Gillin's story begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, and spectacles, as well as workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious order, as well as the convergence of aesthetic and scientific approaches to pitch standardization. In closing, Gillin delves into the era's religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tension between religious/spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific/materialist ones"--
Author | : William James Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |