�There is no reason,� said Mike McCann, the man in charge of Big Ben, as he
made his way down the 334 steps from the belfry at the top of the tower,
�why it should not last forever.� As the world�s most famous timepiece
celebrates its 150th anniversary, that is a forthright statement of faith in
a masterpiece of Victorian engineering that was deemed so ambitious at the
time of its inception that many clockmakers thought it could never be built.
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