The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an
experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly
continuously ever since. It was "one of the first pieces" purchased
for a collection of apparatus by clergyman and physicist Robert Walker. It is
located in a corridor adjacent to the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory at the
University of Oxford, England, and is still ringing, though inaudibly due to
being behind two layers of glass.
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The Oxford Electric Bell has produced approximately 10
billion rings since 1840 and holds the Guinness World Record as “the world’s
most durable battery delivering ceaseless tintinnabulation”.
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| THE OXFORD ELECTRIC BELL |
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