Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Биг Бен" (6 класс)

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  Big Ben
  

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  Big Ben — a bell tower in London, part of an architectural complex of the Westminster palace.
  The official name — "An hour tower of the Westminster palace", also it call "St. Stephan's Tower".
  

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  The tower was erected
  in 1858, the tower clock was launched a course on May 21
  1859.
  

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  Big Ben — this name not towers, and a 13-ton bell which calls inside.
  

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  In 1844 according to the decision of Parliament the commission on tower construction with hours was created. The following was the requirement by o'clock: the first blow of an hour bell has to correspond to hour to within a second.
  

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  But by 1851 the designer who has decided not such step — Edmund Beckett Denison who decided to break a weight record of a bell in York ("Great Peter") in 10 tons was found and to cast a bell weighing 16 tons.
  

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  George Mears was engaged in casting.
  Within a week melted a bell,
  and then 20 days left on that metal cooled down and accepted the necessary form. It happened on April 10, 1858.
  And after approbation on May 31, 1859 a bell
  on 16 painted horses carried to the Parliament building under enthusiastic exclamations of crowd.
  

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  Pig-iron shooters poured from easier alloy. Hours were open on May 31, 1859. Till 1912 hours were shined with gas horns which were replaced later with electric lamps. And by radio the first time a chiming clock sounded on December 31, 1923.
  

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  The mechanism putting in action a hammer
  bells Big Ben.
  

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  Big Ben also is only one bell.
  Its height
  more than 2 meters,
  and diameter is equal to nearly 3 meters.
  

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  These hours on a tower of Parliament of the United Kingdom hear around the world. Microphones of radio service Air Force transfer
  their fight each hour. With the first blow of Big Ben at night
  with 31 on 1 planet officially according to the international temporary standard has to enter the new millennium.
  

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  Tower height
  61 meters (without considering a spike);
  hours settle down at the height of 55 m from the earth. With a diameter of the dial in
  7 meters and arrows long 2,7 and 4,2 meters, height of each figure — only 61 centimeters. Hours
  long time were considered as the biggest in the world.