The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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House-bells

A special mixture for this class of bells is copper 77, tin 21, antimony 2. See BELL-METAL; BRASS.

Hundredweight signifies a weight of 112 lbs. avoirdupois. Twenty of these, or 2240 lbs., make one ton. This weight is expressed by the abbreviation cwt. See TON.

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