Here's a wonderful, fascinating website, and specifically a manic talk by Clifford Stoll, who wrote " The Cuckoo's Egg", a book about tracking computer hackers. I read it back when I was an electrical engineer... But now he's thinking a bit more broadly, as you can see in the video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/237
He ends the talk with an inscription on a bell, in the bell tower at SUNY Buffalo:
"All truth is one.
In this light, may science and religion endeavor together for the steady evolution of Mankind:
From darkness to light,
From narrowness to broadmindedness,
From prejudice to tolerance,
It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn."
I assume that this is something said by the school's first president... or at a building dedication...
But it was interesting...
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Dang... answered my own question!
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/archives/buildings/chimes.html
"The largest bell, weighing 1,800 pounds, is tuned exact F. It is used to strike the hours as well as for the quarter strike. It bears the following inscription, written by Cuthbert W. Pound, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals"
I am working in London for a couple of weeks, and I stumbled across the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, reportedly the oldest commercial enterprise in the U.K. They cast the bells for Big Ben and for the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. They had the type used to impress the text on the mold for Big Ben on display. I wonder who cast SUNY Buffalo's?
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