Summary

Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend. The Liberty Bell , with its famous crack, hasn’t been rung in 180 years, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas.

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