Measurement |
Metric |
Imperial | Notes |
Size of the Mother of Voices based on
the photo of man and bell
| | |
Height of a Viking man in photo | 60 | mm | | | Measured directly from video screen capture |
Height of a Viking man for reference | 1.8288 | m | 6 | ft | Baseline, assumed for simplicity |
Width of bell base | 125 | mm | | | Measured from video screen capture |
Resulting single dimension ratio | 2.083333333 | | | | Ratio of man height to bell base width |
Calculated bell base diameter | 3.81 | m | 12.5 | ft | Based on man height to bell width |
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Bell Weight Standard - assumed bronze
| | (Note that Notre Dame bell thickness is about 16 cm, roughly the same as the Mother of Voices) |
Notre Dame bell base diameter | 2.62 | m | | | |
Notre Dame bell weight | 13 | tons | 14.33003 | tons | Includes 500 kg for clapper |
Notre Dame bell weight without clapper | 12.5 | tons | 13.778875 | tons | Without clapper |
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Calculated Mother of Voices weight, if bronze
| | |
Ratio of bases | 1.454198473 | | | | Notre Dame and Mother of Voices base widths compared |
Ratio of masses | 3.075183622 | | | |
Ratio of bases³, resulting from height, width, depth multiplication |
Calculated Mother of Voices weight if bronze | 38.43979528 | tons | 42.37257074 | tons |
Multiplication of Ratio of masses times Notre Dame bell weight without
clapper |
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Standard metal weights
| | https://roofonline.com/weight-of-metal/ |
Bronze weight | 8.86 | g/cm³ |
553 | lb/ft³ | |
Gold weight | 19.32 | g/cm³ | 1,206.1 | lb/ft³ | |
Resulting metal weight ratio |
2.180586907 |
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Gold weight compared to bronze weight |
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Calculated Mother of Voices weight, if gold
| | |
Bronze weight * metal weight ratio |
83.82131431 |
tons |
92.39707298 |
tons |
Not sure how a golden bell would
sound, but that's not the issue here :-) |
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Standard Barge Capacity |
|
Google: "barge capacity chart" |
Barge deck size | 634.062975 | sq m | 6825 | sq ft | |
Capacity | 1360.778728 | tons | 1500 | tons | |
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Barge requirement
| | |
Calculated barge ratio |
0.061598049 |
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Comparison between standard barge capacity and the
Golden Bell weight capacity needed |
Calculated deck size requirement | 39.05704198 | sq m | 420.4066821 | sq ft |
Barge area needed based on Standard Barge Capacity and Calculated barge
ratio |
Calculated deck length & width requirement |
6.25752426 |
m |
20.50382116 |
ft |
Linear size of barge needed (square root of deck area) |
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Just to put the whole
idea of golden bell
transportation in perspective, an episode of the History Channel series
Expedition Unknown,
"Curse of the Golden Bell", was originally broadcast in 2015, focusing on the lost
Dhammazedi Bell. This (largely) golden bell was cast in what is now Myanmar in 1484 AD
by King Dhammazedi, the ruler of what was then Lower Burma. It was reportedly 18' tall and weighed 30 tons.
Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article on the bell:
"According to contemporary texts, the bell was cast from 180,000
viss (294 t) of metal which included silver and gold, as well as
copper and tin. It was said to be twelve cubits high and eight
cubits wide. In 1583, Gasparo Balbi, a Venetian gem merchant,
visited the Shwedagon Pagoda and described the King Dhammazedi
Bell in his diary as being engraved from top to bottom with
writing that he could not decipher:
'I found in a faire hall
a very large bell which we measured, and found to be seven paces
and three hand breadths and it is full of letters from the top
to the bottom but there was no Nation that could understand
them.'"
Here's a representation of what the Dhammazedi
Bell probably looked like:
This golden bell was stolen by
Filipe de Brito e Nicote, a Portuguese
warlord and mercenary, who put it on a barge and towed it
behind one of his ships. It's worth noting that the bell was lost in a
Myanmar river (probably the Rangoon River) when the barge collapsed. The bell has
never been recovered.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-world-s-largest-bell-continues-to-lure-treasure-hunters-and-burma-s-elite-8907627.html
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