Bell

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Bell may refer to:

• Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device
• Electronic bell, for instance a doorbell
• Bell (school)
• The Bell, a mysterious experiment by the Nazis to overcome the force of gravity.
• Bell System, the name of America's telephone system from the 1880's until around 1984
• Wind instrument, the bell is the round, flared opening at the opposite end from the mouthpiece, where the sound exits and is amplified
• Ship's bells, that mark the time on a ship
• Bell character, an ASCII character that produces audible signal when sent to a terminal
• Bell (typeface)
• Diving bell, a hollow, usually inverted vessel, such as one used for diving deep below the surface of a body of water
• in botany, the corolla of a flower.
• Bell Curve, used in statistics, to grade papers etc.
• Bell (fictional currency), is a fictional currency in several Nintendo Video games.
• Altar bell (a bell rung during the Catholic mass)

Places:

• Bell, California
• Bell, Florida
• Bell, New South Wales
• Bell railway station, Melbourne
• Bell Township, Pennsylvania
• See also Bell (place) for places named "Bell"

Companies:

• Bell Records
• Bell Canada
• Bell Aircraft Corporation, later Bell Helicopter Textron
• Bell Telephone Laboratories

People:

• Alexander Graham Bell, telephony inventor
• Carey Bell, blues harmonicist
• Eric Temple Bell, mathematician
• Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary to China
• John Stewart Bell, physicist
• Joseph Bell, medical lecturer
• Charles Bell, Scottish anatomist, surgeon, and physiologist
• Catherine Bell, American actress

See also:

• List of people by name: Bel#People named Bell
• Decibel, "bel", is a logarithmic unit used in the measurment of sound levels volume