. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. 845; of Montreal, 13 Ya, 1847; ofWestminster (Big Ben), 151/2, 1856; (), 131/2, 1858; the great bell ofSt. Pauls, 171/2, 1882. Others are thebells of Ghent (5), Gorlitz (10%), , Rome (8), Antwerp (7^), 01-miitz (18), Brussels (7), Novgorod (31),Pekin (531/2). See Bell, Liberty. Bells, as the term is used on shipboard,are the strokes of the ships bell thatproclaim the hours. Eight bells, thehighest number, are rung at noon andevery fourth hour afterward
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. 845; of Montreal, 13 Ya, 1847; ofWestminster (Big Ben), 151/2, 1856; (), 131/2, 1858; the great bell ofSt. Pauls, 171/2, 1882. Others are thebells of Ghent (5), Gorlitz (10%), , Rome (8), Antwerp (7^), 01-miitz (18), Brussels (7), Novgorod (31),Pekin (531/2). See Bell, Liberty. Bells, as the term is used on shipboard,are the strokes of the ships bell thatproclaim the hours. Eight bells, thehighest number, are rung at noon andevery fourth hour afterward, i. e., at 4,8, 12 oclock, and so on. The interme-diary periods are indicated thus: 12:30,1 bell; 1 oclock, 2 bells; 1:30, 3 bells,etc., until the eight bells announce 4oclock, when the series recommences4:30, 1 bell; 5 oclock, 2 bells, etc. Theeven numbers of strikes thus always an-nounce hours, the odd numbers halfhours. BELL 476 BELL, LIBERTY BELL, ALEXANDEB GRAHAM, in-ventor of the telephone, was born inEdinburgh, March 3, 1847. He was edu-cated in Edinburgh and in Germany, andsettled in Canada in 1870. In 1872 he. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL went to the United States and introducedfor the education of deaf mutes the sys-tem of visible speech contrived by hisfather. He became Professor of VocalPhysiology in Boston University, and atthe Philadelphia Exhibition, in 1876, ex-hibited his telephone, designed and partlyconstructed some years before. He wasalso the inventor of the photophone in1880, of the graphophone in 1887, and ofkindred instruments. He made many im-provements to tetrahedral kites and inaerial locomotion for the Aerial Experi-ment Association (1903-1908). Gold andsilver medals and degrees from the lead-ing scientific associations and universitiesof Europe and the United States havebeen awarded to him. In 1887 he foundedand endowed the Volta Bureau for Re-lief of the Deaf, in 1900 the AmericanAssociation to Promote the Teaching ofSpeech to the Deaf. Regent of Smith-s
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