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A collection of vintage cast iron cookware. Most of the major manufacturers of cast iron cookware in the United States began production in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Cast-iron cookware and stoves were especially popular among homemakers and housekeepers during the first half of the 20th century.
Brillion Iron Works, or BIW, was a foundry and a manufacturer of farm implements located in Brillion, Wisconsin. BIW produced approximately 145,000 net tons of gray and ductile iron castings annually, ranking it among the top ten independent foundries in the United States .
The oldest bell in Italy, cast in 1635, is a Grassmayr product. [3] The six bells of the Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral were cast by Grassmayr. The largest measured 3.3 meters high by 3.3 meters wide and weighed 25 tons. [4] The Innsbruck Cathedral's Mariahilfglocke, the second-largest bell in Tyrol, was cast by Grassmayr in 1846. Seven ...
The first medieval designs came in two separate halves into which a metal pea was introduced and the two halves were then soldered or crimped together. Somewhere around 1400 they were cast in a single piece with a ball of metal inside. [1] Crotal bells, also known as rumble bells, were used on horse-drawn vehicles before motor vehicles were common.
He took the initiative to learn how to cast bells himself. After years of experimentation, an in-house bell foundry was installed in 1947. [citation needed] 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]
The strike may be made by an internal "clapper" or "uvula", an external hammer, or—in small bells—by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell (jingle bell). Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its resonant properties, but can also be made from other hard materials. This depends on the function.
In 1881 at Loughborough, Taylor's cast "Great Paul" (the largest British cast bell in Britain) for St Paul's Cathedral in London, weighing 17,002 kilograms (37,483 lb) or more than 17 metric tons. Rock band AC/DC used a 2000-pound cast bronze bell for the song " Hells Bells ", which was originally used on the Back in Black Tour in 1980.
Small iron bells of 8th or 9th century date, argued to be for cow or sheep, have been excavated from upland farm settlements at Crummack Dale and Gauber High Pasture in the Yorkshire Dales. [11] An early depiction of a bellwether, the leading sheep of a flock, on whose neck a bell is hung, is in the Carolingian Stuttgart Psalter of the ninth ...