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Dent was a London manufacturer of luxury clocks and watches, founded by Edward John Dent. Dent began making watches in 1814, although the Dent triangular trade mark was not registered until 1876. A notable success for the company was winning the contract to make the clock for the new palace of Westminster, which became known as Big Ben.
Dent established a workshop in Somerset Wharf, Strand, to produce this excellent timepiece, which was installed in 1844. In 1852 Dent won the commission to make the great clock—now popularly called Big Ben—for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster, but he died before completing the project. Edward John Dent died on 8 March 1853, at the ...
The second "Big Ben" (centre) and the Quarter Bells from The Illustrated News of the World, 4 December 1858 Big Ben. The main bell, officially known as the "Great Bell" but better known as Big Ben, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. It sounds an E-natural. [75]
View CNN’s Big Ben Fast Facts and learn more about the clock and bell in Elizabeth Tower.
The UK's most famous chimes were first broadcast live by the BBC on New Year's Eve 1923.
The Big Ben was made by Edward John Dent following the designs of Edmund Beckett Denison and George Airy, and is a gigantic 5 tonnes machinery. The Pachuca clock was made not by Edward Dent but by the company he founded, and is many times smaller than the Bi Ben's machinery and of a different design. On the cover the Roman numeral IV is written ...
In 1851, he designed the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament in London), responsible for the chimes of Big Ben. In 1868 he worked with W. H. Crossland to design St Chad's Church, Far Headingley in Leeds on land given by his family. The Trinity College Clock mechanism was designed by Lord Grimthorpe [4]
View CNN’s Big Ben Fast Facts and learn more about the clock and bell in Elizabeth Tower.