Why did the liberty bell crack 2 times?

Answer 1

Becuase at the time the bell was rang so often that it cracked. then they tried to fix it and did so. then they rang it so much again that it cracked all the way up and the liberty bell cannot ring again.

Answer 2

Because when it was first hit it cracked.

Answer 3

Ordering and first crackThe bell was ordered in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembely for use in the Pennsylvania State House (now known as independence in Philadelphia. It was cast by the whitechapel bell foundry in London and delivered to Philadelphia in late August/early September 1752 via the ship Hibernia. It cost £100, weighed 2,080 lbs, is twelve feet in the lip circumference, and three feet from the lip to the top. The following March, the bell was hung from temporary scaffolding in the square outside the State House. To the dismay of onlookers, the bell cracked during testing. Isaac Norris, speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, wrote, "I had the mortification to hear that it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper without any other violence as it was hung up to try the sound."

The Original Liberty Bell was cracked the first time it was rung. They tried to fix it but the material was still too brittle and it cracked again. No one knows when it cracked but it started out a very small one and got worse.

Answer 4

The Liberty Bell has cracked several times, and each time it happened because the bell was rung. Each time it broke, it was repaired, but the last time it broke -- in 1846, when it was rung for George Washington's birthday -- it cracked really badly and could not be repaired. It is now on display in Philadelphia. As Agent Scully said on the X-files, "It's a big bell, with a big crack, and you have to wait in a long line." That was pretty much my experience, too. See the Related Link below for more details.

Answer 5

The Liberty Bell has actually had a number of cracks over the years, many of which were repaired. The bell became "unringable" on Washington's Birthday, February 26, 1846. According to this quote from the Philadelphia Public Ledger:

"The old Independence Bell rang its last clear note on Monday last in honor of the birthday of Washington and now hangs in the great city steeple irreparably cracked and dumb. It had been cracked before but was set in order of that day by having the edges of the fracture filed so as not to vibrate against each other ... It gave out clear notes and loud, and appeared to be in excellent condition until noon, when it received a sort of compound fracture in a zig-zag direction through one of its sides which put it completely out of tune and left it a mere wreck of what it was."

Answer 6

There is widespread disagreement about when the first crack appeared on the Bell. Hair-line cracks on bells were bored out to prevent expansion. However, it is agreed that the final expansion of the crack which rendered the Bell unringable was on Washington's Birthday in 1846.

Answer 7

According to Tim and Moby, the Articles of Confederation, Tim and Moby go back in time to the Second Continental Congress times. In the end of the episode Tim shouts that the liberty bell is near them so Moby rings it, causing a large crack. Then Tim and Moby run away back to the future. That is how the bell cracked.

Answer 8

It cracked once by ringing it hard then on George Washington's birthday.

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Answer 9

It cracked because the bell was rung so many times, that it broke.