Bell had begun experimenting with electricity and sound when he was eighteen years old.
VOA: special.2010.05.14
So when the fire alarm bell rang, men near the sound of the fire bell dropped what they were doing and rushed out to fight the fire.
VOA: special.2009.05.17
But when he rigged the truck's bell to sound more like a jazz cymbal, he wound up making more money that summer than he'd made teaching for nine months.