BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University has sued an Ohio company, saying a defective bell clapper sold by the company broke an 81-year-old, 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) bell dedicated to the memory of its ...

In the account lately given in your columns of the Pitt-Rivers Anthropological Collection I find it stated, in speaking of bells: “The clapper is a late addition to the bell which does not exist in ...

It appears the Great Bell Clapper Caper, while pulled off long ago on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, is far from forgotten – at least if an anonymous letter that arrived in at the RGJ on ...

The familiar sound of a school bell ringing is created by vibrations caused by a clapper inside the bell. The clapper swings back and forth, hitting the inside of the bell and creating vibrations. The ...

Alas, it appears The Great Clapper Caper is to be relegated to Northern Nevada’s unsolved mysteries files. Like the whereabouts of the gold from the 1870 Verdi train robbery and the nature of that ...

It seems the follies of youth haven't changed much since the 1950s. If you happened to be a campus watchman at the University in the 1950s, you may have been baffled by the sudden clank of wire ...

A rumor that the clapper of the Memorial Hall tower bell, which has been silent since noon on Sunday, had been stolen during the Sander's Theatre services at that time, was confirmed late last night ...