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Contents 1 Sound-making devices 2 Bell-shaped items 3 Bell Telephone System 4 Companies 5 Places 6 Animals and plants 7 See also

Bell may refer to:

Sound-making devices

• Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device
  • Altar bell, a bell rung during the Catholic mass
  • Church bell, a bell hanging in a church tower
  • Handbell, a handheld bell, often designed to be rung in tuned sets
  • School bell, a bell that signals transitions during a school day
  • Ship's bells, bells which mark time on a ship
  • Tubular bell, a chime
  • Electronic bell, such as a doorbell or buzzer
  • Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel
• Bell character, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal
• Bell effect, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio

Bell-shaped items

• Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
• The bell of a wind instrument is the round, flared opening opposite the mouthpiece
• The bell of a flower is properly called the corolla
• Bell curve, illustrates normal distribution in statistics
  • Bell curve grading, a use of the bell curve in comparing student achievement
• Bell barrow, a burial mound
• Bell beaker, prehistoric pottery
• Bell bottoms, a style of trousers
• Bell housing, part of an automotive transmission
• Bell pit, a type of coal mine
• Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in several Nintendo video games.
• The Bell, a supposed anti-gravity experiment by Nazi scientists ([1], [2])

Bell Telephone System

• Alexander Graham Bell, telephony inventor
• Bell System, North America's telephone system from the 1880s to the 1980s
• Regional Bell operating company, sometimes known as "Baby Bells"
  • Bell Canada
  • BellSouth
  • Cincinnati Bell
• Bell Labs, a research & development laboratory
• The Bell Telephone Hour, a television show
• Bell (typeface), a typeface developed for use in phone books

Companies

• Bell & Howell, a camera and film company
• Bell Aircraft Corporation, later Bell Helicopter Textron
• Bell Records, one of four record labels
• Bell Shakespeare Company, Australian theatre company
• Bell Sports, a maker of bicycle helmets
• Packard Bell, a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
• The Bell Tea Company, New Zealand tea packer
• Taco Bell, a fast food company

Places

A city or town:

• Bell, California
• Bell, Florida
• Bell, New South Wales
• Bell Acres, Pennsylvania
• Bell Buckle, Tennessee
• Bell Center, Wisconsin
• Bell City, Missouri
• Bell Gardens, California
• Bell Hill, Washington
• Bell Island, off the coast of Newfoundland
• Bell Park, Victoria
• Bell Township, Pennsylvania
• Bells Corners, Ontario

A county:

• Bell County, Kentucky
• Bell County, Texas

Other:

• Bell railway station, Melbourne
• Bell (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
• Bell High School, one of several schools
• Bell Centre, a stadium in Montreal
• USS Bell, one of two ships in the United States Navy

Animals and plants

• Bellbird
• Bell Miner
• Bell pepper
• Diving bell spider

See also

• List of people by name: Bell
• Bel
• Belle

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