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, Victoria, Australia ]] A clock tower is a Tower built with one or more (often four) Clock faces.The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a Town Hall , but many clock towers are free-standing. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a Turret Clock . It often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large Bell s or Chime s, sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes. LANDMARKS Some clock towers are famous landmarks. Four of the best-known are the clock tower which houses Big Ben (often itself colloquially referred to as Big Ben) of the Palace Of Westminster in London , the Rajabai Tower in Mumbai , the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin and the Peace Tower in Ottawa . On 240 meters (787 feet) is 10 meters higher and is the highest clock tower in the world. The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower holds the record for largest non-chiming four faced clock. The chimes were intentionally left out so that the Big Ben tower would still have that record. HISTORY Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the Twentieth Century , most people did not have watches. Clock towers were therefore placed near the centers of towns and were often the tallest structures there. The use of clock towers in the West date back to the Ancient Roman period, while other civilizations such as medieval China also featured clock towers (see Su Song ). and the Shanghai Customs Building in China. GALLERY |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Rajabai_Tower" class="copylinks">Rajabai Tower , South Mumbai , India |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Kremlin_towers#Spasskaya" class="copylinks">Spasskaya Tower , Moscow |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Clock_Tower,_Faisalabad" class="copylinks">Clock Tower , Faisalabad , Pakistan |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Warsaw_Palace_of_Culture_and_Science" class="copylinks">Warsaw Palace Of Culture And Science , the second highest clock clock tower |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/The_Chinese_High_School_Clock_Tower_Building" class="copylinks">Clock Tower Building of The Chinese High School , a National Monument of Singapore |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Einsiedeln_Abbey" class="copylinks">Einsiedeln Abbey , Switzerland |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/McGraw_Tower" class="copylinks">McGraw Tower at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Samford_Hall" class="copylinks">Samford Hall located on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn , Alabama |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Clock_Tower,_Hong_Kong" class="copylinks">The Clock Tower at Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong was part of the former Kowloon Station |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Peace_Tower" class="copylinks">Peace Tower , Parliament Hill Ottawa , Ontario |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Saint_Nicolas" class="copylinks">Saint Nicolas church, Kozani , Greece |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Malay_College_Kuala_Kangsar" class="copylinks">Malay College Kuala Kangsar , Malaysia |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Central_railway_station,_Sydney" class="copylinks">Central Terminal , Sydney, Australia |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Star_Ferry" class="copylinks">Star Ferry pier in Central, Hong Kong |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Joseph_Chamberlain_Memorial_Clock_Tower" class="copylinks">Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower , The University Of Birmingham , tallest clock tower in England made by Smith Of Derby |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Mississauga_City_Hall" class="copylinks">Mississauga City Hall in Mississauga , Ontario |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Allen-Bradley" class="copylinks">Allen-Bradley Division Rockwell Automation Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Minneapolis,_Minnesota" class="copylinks">Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Sather_Tower" class="copylinks">Sather Tower , University Of California, Berkeley |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Memorial_Tower" class="copylinks">Memorial Tower , Louisiana State University |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Rome,_Georgia" class="copylinks">Rome, Georgia |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/National_University_of_San_Marcos" class="copylinks">University Of Saint Mark , Lima , Peru |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Cathedral_of_San_Agustin" class="copylinks">Cathedral Of San Agustin bell/clock tower in Laredo, Texas |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Ferry_Building" class="copylinks">Ferry Building , San Francisco, California |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/University_of_Texas_Health_Science_Center_at_San_Antonio" class="copylinks">University Of Texas Health Science Center in Laredo, Texas |
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