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| x Liberty Bell |
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The Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most prominent symbols of the American Revolutionary War. It is a familiar symbol of independence within the United States and has been described as an icon of liberty and justice....
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The Tsar Bell (Russian: Царь–колокол, Tsar-kolokol) is a huge bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great.
The bell is currently the largest bell in the world, weighing...
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| x Great Tom |
Great Tom is the bell that hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren) in Christ Church, University of Oxford, England. It is the loudest bell in Oxford, and measures seven feet one inch in diameter and five feet nine inches in height, and...
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The Sigismund Bell, named after King Sigismund I the Old, is a bell that hangs inside Zygmunt's Tower at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland. Zygmunt is Polish for Sigismund. It was cast in 1520 by the German artisan, Hans Beham (also known as Johann...
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| x Pummerin |
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Pummerin ("Boomer") is the name of the two largest bells in the history of the Stephansdom in Vienna.
The Old Pummerin was originally cast in 1705 from 208 of the 300 cannon captured from the Muslim invaders in the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna....
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| x World Peace Bell |
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The Newport, Kentucky World Peace Bell is one of more than twenty Peace Bells around the World. It weighs 33,285 kg (73,381 lb) and is 3.7 m (12 feet) wide. From 2000 until 2006, it was the largest swinging bell in the World. It was dedicated on...
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| x Japanese Peace Bell |
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The Japanese Peace Bell is a United Nations peace symbol. Cast on 1952-10-24, it was an official gift of the Japanese people to the United Nations on June 8, 1954. The symbolic bell of peace was donated by Japan to the United Nations at a time when...
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| x Bell of King Seongdeok |
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The Bell of King Seongdeok is a massive bronze bell, the largest extant bell in Korea and one of the largest in the world. The full Korean name means "Sacred (or Divine) Bell of King Seongdeok the Great." It was also known as the Emille Bell, after...
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| x Big Joe |
Big Joe is a bronze bell which hangs in the steeple of Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The bell is the largest swinging bell which was ever cast in the United States. It was cast by the Buckeye Bell Foundry in 1895 . The...
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| x Illinois Freedom Bell |
The Illinois Freedom Bell is located in Mount Morris, Illinois, United States, and is the official freedom bell of the U.S. state of Illinois. The bell was created for a church in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as a replica of the Liberty Bell in 1862. In...
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| x Korean Bell of Friendship |
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The Korean Bell of Friendship is a massive bronze bell housed in a stone pavilion in Angel's Gate Park, in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of Gaffey and 37th Streets, the section of the park is...
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| x Liberty Bell |
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The Liberty Bell (in German, Freiheitsglocke) in Berlin, Germany, is a bell that was given as a gift from Americans to the city of Berlin in 1950 as a symbol of the fight for freedom and against communism in Europe, and was inspired by the American...
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| x Pokahuntas Bell |
Named for the Indian princess Pocahontas, the Pokahuntas Bell was created in 1907 to hang in the Virginia Building at the Jamestown Exposition.
The push to create the bell was led by the Pocahontas Bell Association, created by Anna S. Green of...
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| x Victoria Tower Bell |
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The Victoria Tower Bell was cast in 1875 and installed in the Victoria Tower of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in 1877. The Bell fell from the Tower in the Centre Block fire of 1916.
The Bell was restored in the year 2000, and placed on the...
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| x Bilbie family |
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The Bilbie family were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon in south-west England from the late 1600s to the early 1800s.
Their importance to the local economy and in local history is...
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| x Fonderie Paccard |
Fonderie Paccard is a French foundry founded in 1796, which has cast more than 100,000 bells located throughout the World. The foundry has been continuously operated for seven generations by the Paccard family. The largest bell cast by Paccard is...
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| x Gillett & Johnston |
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Gillett and Johnston was a clock and bell manufacturing business in Croydon, England.
William Gillett started a clock making business on Union Road in Croydon, England in 1844. In 1877, Arthur Johnston joined the business as a partner adding a bell...
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| x Leamy Acoustic Art |
Leamy Acoustic Art Inc. is Canada's only full time bell foundry and specializes in smaller bells designed for fine art collections and personal use. The foundry produces only one-off, untuned bells using the lost-wax process.
Leamy Acoustic Art is...
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| x McShane Bell Foundry |
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The McShane Bell Foundry, located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, is a maker of church bells. Since its founding in 1856 by Henry McShane, it has produced over 300,000 bells; at one time, the foundry also produced pipes and plumbing fixtures. It was...
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| x Meneely bell foundry |
The Meneely Bell Foundry was a bell foundry established in 1826 in West Troy (now Watervliet), New York, by Andrew Meneely. Two of Andrew's sons continued to operate the foundry after his death, while a third son, Clinton H. Meneely, opened a second...
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| x Petit & Fritsen |
Royal Bellfounders Petit & Fritsen, based in Aarle-Rixtel, the Netherlands is the oldest family owned business in the Netherlands, with the foundry dating back to 1660.
Included on List of oldest companies (1660)
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| x Pieter and François Hemony |
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François Hemony (±1609-1667) and his brother Pieter (Pierre) Hemony (1619-1680) were the greatest carillon bell founders in the history of the Low Countries. They developed the carillon, in collaboration with Jacob van Eyck, into a full-fledged...
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| x Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry |
Royal Eijsbouts (Dutch: Koninklijke Eijsbouts) is a bell foundry located in Asten, Netherlands.
The workshop was founded in 1872 by Bonaventura Eijsbouts as a "factory for tower clocks." In 1893 Eijsbouts was joined by his 15 year old son, Johan,...
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| x Rudhall of Gloucester |
Rudhall of Gloucester was a family business of bell founders in the city of Gloucester, England, who between 1684 and 1835 produced over 5,000 bells. The business was founded by Abraham Rudhall (1657–1736) and the earliest ring of bells he cast was...
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| x John Taylor Bellfounders |
John Taylor & Co (formerly trading as Taylors, Eayre & Smith Ltd, John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd, and other names), based in Loughborough in the United Kingdom, is the world's largest working bell foundry.
The company manufactures bells for use in...
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| x Verdin Bell Company |
The Verdin Company is a manufacturer of bronze bells based in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. The company has been making bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842. They also manufacture electronic...
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| x Whitechapel Bell Foundry |
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The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. The foundry is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The foundry...
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| x Mingun Bell |
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The Mingun Bell is a bell located in Mingun, Sagaing division, Myanmar. It is located in some 11 km (7 miles) north of Mandalay on the western bank of the Ayeyarwady river. The casting of the bell started in 1808 and finished in 1810. King Bodawpaya...
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