Bell Facts for Kids

A bell is a simple musical instrument. Most bells are made of metal. Bells are also in churches to announce the time between hours. Ships usually carry a ship's bell. Alarm bells warn of danger. Some bells are in bell towers.

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13th c. BC bell, Shang dynasty
Chinese bronze bell, 18th-16th century BC
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, dated 433 BC.
Mechanism of a bell hung for English full-circle ringing. The bell can swing through a full circle in alternate directions.
English full-circle bells shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions.
English full-circle bells shown in the "up" position.
Wind-powered bell under temple eaves,. Banna-ji. Ashikaga, Tochigi.
The principal harmonics of the Erfurt bell (1497) typical of a harmonically-tuned bell: strike note is E, with hum note an octave below, minor third, fifth, nominal above, and major third and perfect fifth in the second octave.
Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament.
Petersglocke, Cologne Cathedral with person for scale
A Warring States-era zheng (钲) bell from Baoshan 2 Tomb in Jingmen, Hubei
This copper bell was made by pre-Columbian North American natives.
The Glasgow 'Dead or Deid bell' of 1642
Japanese temple bell of the Ryōanji Temple, Kyoto
"Bell house at Shimoda" in Japan
Buddhist bell, Rewalsar, India
Jain bell inside temple, Chittorgarh Fort
Temple bell and clapper. Banna-ji. Japan.
Mingun Bell weighs 55,555 viss, or 90 tonnes.
Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.
The Zygmunt (Sigismund) Bell (from 1520) in Kraków, Poland.
The World Peace Bell in Kentucky.
Bronze jingyun bell cast in the year 711 AD, Xi'an.
Chinese bells from the ancient Warring States, Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, China.
St. Ulrich, Memmingen
Yongle Bell
A bell in Chang Chun Temple, Wuhan, hanging on its pulao
St Cuileain's Bell from Ireland, 7th-8th Century AD (British Museum)
Bronze bell from the second half of the fourteenth century, depicting Saints Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, and Thomas.
Fire Bell, Glendale, Arizona.
The bell as depicted in fine art: This triptych depicts Benkei carrying the giant bell of Mii-dera Buddhist temple up Hei-zan Mountain. – Chikanobu Toyohara, c. 1890.
This bell is called Mii-dera no Bansho (三井寺の晩鐘), the evening bell at Mii-dera, a Buddhist temple in Otsu, which is near Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. This image shows the hanging wooden beam positioned to strike the outer side of the resonating surface.

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