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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pickin and Grinin, post: 25986006, member: 73995&quot;]Below is a photo of the original Liberty bell. This bell rang for nearly 100 years before the crack was noticed.</p><p>The Inscription reads:</p><p>Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof Lev. XXV. v X.</p><p>By Order of the ASSEMBLY of the Province of PENSYLVANIA for the State House in PhiladA</p><p>Pass and Stow</p><p>Philada</p><p>MDCCLIII.</p><p>This happens to be the third bell ordered to be hung in Independence Hall. (Pennsylvania State Hall) The first was made in a foundry in England. And had cracked upon arrival.</p><p>John Pass and John Stow took the bell melted it and cast it again.</p><p>City officials in Philadelphia scheduled a public celebration with free food and drink for the testing of the new bell. The sound was not accepted and was mocked. Pass and Stow took the bell and recast it a 2nd time. </p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Liberty_Bell_2017a.jpg/800px-Liberty_Bell_2017a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>By William Zhang - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/willzhang05/33650671514/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/willzhang05/33650671514/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/willzhang05/33650671514/</a>, CC BY 2.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96282122" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96282122" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96282122</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent its farther spread and restore the tone of the bell using a technique called &quot;stop drilling&quot;. The wide &quot;crack&quot; in the Liberty Bell is actually the repair job! Look carefully and you&#039;ll see over 40 drill bit marks in that wide &quot;crack&quot;. But, the repair was not successful. The Public Ledger newspaper reported that the repair failed when another fissure developed. This second crack, running from the abbreviation for &quot;Philadelphia&quot; up through the word &quot;Liberty&quot;, silenced the bell forever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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