Monitoring Critical Historical Artifacts MicroStrain Sensors helped The Liberty Bell safely move In 1751, the Pennsylvania Assembly ordered a bell. It cost 150 pounds, 13 shillings 8 pence, was delivered a year later by London’s Whitechapel Foundry, and was summarily hung in Independence Hall. There followed a long and tortous history of ringing, cracking, repairs, and storied accounts of what happened at each step. 250 years later, it moved to a new home, and MicroStrain sensors monitored the ride. The Liberty Bell moved from its longtime home in Independence Hall to a glass pavilion nearby in 1976. Then, in 2003, it travelled again. This time for a distance of 963 feet, to the newly constructed Liberty Bell Center. The 2080 pound bell was moved on a specially designed

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