Upon melting it down for recasting, the two tried to make the new Bell less brittle by adding an ounce-and-a-half of copper to each pound of material from the old Bell. The result was less than spectacular. Hung in April of , the new Bell's tone displeased many. Soon afterward, it was sent back to Pass and Stow. In June, , a third version of the Bell was hung in the State House steeple, and tested.
The tone was not much better, according to Assembly Speaker Isaac Norris. In fact, he went so far as to urge Whitechapel in London to cast another Bell for his provincial capital. The new Whitechapel Bell arrived in May, It also suffered bad reviews. Most agreed it sounded no better than Pass and Stow's second recasting of the original Whitechapel Bell. They stayed hidden in an Allentown church basement until the summer of , when the British occupation of Philadelphia ended.
In a statement released on December 1, the Foundry announced that within the next six months, it would stop its operations on Whitechapel Road, its home since It's an abrupt shift for a company that's been in business since approximately — and perhaps even earlier. Through the centuries, the foundry has sent bells from Saint Petersburg to Sydney and welcomed generations of the royal family to witness its craftsmanship.
In London alone, its handiwork tolls from Westminster Abbey, St. Though the foundry is perhaps best known for casting Big Ben the bell that rings from the Palace of Westminster's iconic tower , it also helped create the most famous sounds of 18th-century America. It sent at least 27 bells to the colonies during the s alone. A document at Christ Church, Philadelphia, where Benjamin Franklin and other forefathers worshiped, lists a bell made for the church as the earliest.
Fifty years later, the Liberty Bell first called the State House Bell arrived, and then, in , a peal of eight bells for Christ Church. After the war, abolitionists seeking to end slavery in America were inspired by the bell's message. The Meaning The State House bell became a herald of liberty in the 19th century. The Anti-Slavery Record, an abolitionist publication, first referred to the bell as the Liberty Bell in , but that name was not widely adopted until years later.
Millions of Americans became familiar with the bell in popular culture through George Lippard's fictional story "Ring, Grandfather, Ring", when the bell came to symbolize pride in a new nation. Beginning in the late s, the Liberty Bell traveled across the country for display at expositions and fairs, stopping in towns small and large along the way.
For a nation recovering from wounds of the Civil War, the bell served to remind Americans of a time when they fought together for independence. Pennsylvania suffragists commissioned a replica of the Liberty Bell. Their "Justice Bell" traveled across Pennsylvania in to encourage support for women's voting rights legislation. It then sat chained in silence until the passage of the 19th Amendment in Now a worldwide symbol, the bell's message of liberty remains just as relevant and powerful today: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof".
Bell Facts The two lines of text around the top of the bell include the inscription of liberty, and information about who ordered the bell Pennsylvania Assembly and why to go in their State House :. The bell weighed 2, lbs. It is made of bronze. The bell's wooden yoke is American elm, but there is no proof that it is the original yoke for this bell. While there is evidence that the bell rang to mark the Stamp Act tax and its repeal, there is no evidence that the bell rang on July 4 or 8, Lesson plans about the Liberty Bell are available on the park's "For Teachers" page.
There are two other bells in the park today, in addition to the Liberty Bell.
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