The previous system from the 1950s was a tubular bell sound that was pushed out through a speaker, Powell said. When it hit the end of its scheduled time slot, it just quit.

This article was originally published with the title “Maillefert's Aerostatic Tubular Diving-Bell” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 1 No. 20 (November 1859), p. 320 doi:10.1038 ...

English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield began writing Tubular Bells 50 years ago, at the age of 17. The record, released two years later, was the first on Richard Branson’s ...

The bell-ringers will play extracts of the album in addition to their own music, while The Orb will play a one-off Orbular Bells DJ set.