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A Simplex-brand fire alarm bell. A fire alarm notification appliance is an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system.A notification appliance may use audible, visible, or other stimuli to alert the occupants of a fire or other emergency condition requiring action.
Made of bell bronze, the bell cracked during a fire after being completed and has never been rung. The bell is the largest bell in the world, [1] weighing 201,924 kilograms (445,166 lb), [2] with a height of 6.14 metres (20.1 ft) and diameter of 6.6 metres (22 ft), and thickness of up to 61 centimetres (24 in). The broken piece weighs 11,500 ...
Fire alarm bell. Fire alarm bells are divided into two categories: vibrating, and single-stroke. On a vibrating bell, the bell will ring continuously until the power is cut off. When power is supplied to a single-stroke bell, the bell will ring once and then stop. It will not ring again until power is turned off and on again.
Cast in 1484 by King Dhammazedi of Mon, this bell was located at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar). The bell was said to be twelve cubits (6.276 m) high and eight cubits (4.184 m) wide. [2] The Great Bell of Dhammazedi remained at the Shwedagon Pagoda as the heaviest functioning bell in the world until 1608.
The bell itself weighs 66,000 pounds (30,000 kg); with clapper and supports. The total weight which swings when the bell is rung is 89,390 pounds (40,550 kg). The largest Bell of the People's Salvation Cathedral is the largest free-swinging church bell in the world, surpassing the Petersglocke of Cologne Cathedral.
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David Bell’s time in Cincinnati has come to an end. The Reds fired their longtime manager after six seasons on Sunday, shortly after the team’s 2-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.The Reds have ...
Pummerin is the third largest swinging bell in Europe Pummerin bell. The new Pummerin (officially named for St. Mary) was a gift from the province of Upper Austria and was cast on 5 September 1951 in St. Florian, Upper Austria from the Old Pummerin's metal (supplemented by metal from some of the remaining captured Turkish cannons at Vienna's Heeresgeschichtliches Museum military museum).