A Famous Clock

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[00:15.94]Lesson 71
[00:18.80]A famous clock
[00:21.48]When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben,
[00:26.43]the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C.
[00:32.10]If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834,
[00:37.22]the great clock would never have been erected.
[00:40.66]Big Ben takes its name rom Sir Benjamin Hall
[00:44.39]who was responsible for the making of the clock
[00:47.52]when the new Houses of Parliament were being built.
[00:51.33]It is not only of immense size,but is extremely accurate as well.
[00:57.10]Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.
[01:02.72]On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking
[01:07.48]because microphones are connected to the clock tower.
[01:11.67]Big Ben has rarely gone wrong.
[01:14.55]Once,however,it failed to give the correct time.
[01:18.25]A painter who had been working on the tower
[01:21.12]hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!
 

Has Big Ben ever gone wrong?