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<DIV><BR><BR><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Harrison was doing it in the 1830s=
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size=3D2>James Harrison cast bells without canons, but the top of the bell =
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domed, not flat. That idea does not seem to have occurred to him, and=
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consequent less effort to fit the bell to a headstock. It took others to re=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>George Dawson</FONT></DIV>
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