Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner, he dispersed them with a few deft fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing...
After roll-call, business was attempted, but with small success. Herr Bock tinkled his bell, announced that the session was over. Immediately the Communists shrieked the Internationale and Monarchists roared Deutschland Über Alles as they left the Chamber...
...booming of guns and the tolling of the historic Capitol bell announced to the assembled multitude that the King had started from the Palace. The passage of the Ruler and his Queen, accompanied by various members of the Royal Family surrounded by dazzling brilliance, was marked by cloudburst after cloudburst of healthy Italian "vivas" which completely drowned the strains of royal music and the clankings of salutes...
...company which now bears his name, came to light. In 1869, when only 23 years old, Westinghouse patented his air brake for stopping trains - now standard equipment for railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting...
...most interesting bits of the Society's work while Professor Palmer was president, was connected with Mr. Jones, the bell-ringer, who performed his duties without missing a single day. Many attempts were made by students to thwart him, but he managed to supply an extra clapper, or to break out the ice in the bell, or do whatever else was necessary. When the bell became cracked, he asked the University to sell it to him and it was given to him as a token of his services. He kept it in his house for some years, until the Memorial...