enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: collectible antique cast iron bells

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bellfounding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellfounding

    The earliest metal bells, with one found in the Taosi site, and four in the Erlitou site, are dated to about 2000 BCE. [1] By the 13th century BCE, bells weighing over 150 kilograms (330 lb) were being cast in China. After 1000 CE, iron became the most commonly used metal for bells instead of bronze.

  3. American Bell Association International - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bell_Association...

    The first American Bell Association International annual convention took place in Chicago, Illinois, in 1946.The fifth annual convention was held in New York City and featured in The New Yorker, which covered one of the American Bell Association International's founders, Mary A. Collins, and Bells of Sarna by the founder of present day company S.S. Sarna. [8]

  4. Crotal bell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotal_bell

    Crotal bells (Greek 'crotalon' – castanet or rattle) are various types of small bells or rattles. They were produced in various pre-Columbian cultures . In Europe they were probably made from before the early Middle Ages ; though many founders cast bells of this type, the Robert Wells bell foundry of Aldbourne, Wiltshire , produced the ...

  5. Revere bells - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_Bells

    Molten bronze would be poured and cooled. After the cast bell was removed from the mold, Revere and his employees would painstakingly clean, polish, and tune the bell by hand. After casting and polishing the bells, Paul Revere generally mounted his bells using a cast and then tuned the bells by removing metal from the interior of the bell.

  6. The Verdin Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Verdin_Company

    The Verdin Company is a manufacturer of bronze bells, clocks and towers based in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. The company has been making, restoring, and repairing bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842. [1] The company also manufactures electronic carillons, street clocks, glockenspiels, and ...

  7. Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Eijsbouts_bell_foundry

    The company is still recognized for their cast bells, which are used in carillons and church bells. In 2006 Eijsbouts cast the largest swinging bell in the world. [citation needed] Royal Eijsbouts has been involved in extensive research programs in campanology (the scientific and musical study of bells) for decades. Those efforts have resulted ...

  1. Ads

    related to: collectible antique cast iron bells