Dumb Bell is certainly a strange word for a piece of gym equipment, it may be dumb, but it's certainly no bell.
So where then did the word come from?
Well it seems that in late Stuart times in England villagers got fed up with the noise of bell ringers practicing their campanology (bell ringing) and sought a way to make it less disruptive to their lives.
The solution was to practice ringing the changes with specially shaped weights to emulate pulling on ropes and ringing bells.
They were especially useful for developing technique, and especially strength and did not make a noise (hence dumb).
Later, when strongmen started to make their own equipment, they kept the name, even though the shape and form changed.
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The First Movie In History?
The first movie of history 1896
Arrival of train at Ciotat
The film is associated with an urban legend well known in the world of cinema.
The story goes that when the film was first shown, the audience was so overwhelmed by the moving image of a life-sized train coming directly at them that people screamed and ran to the back of the room.
Hellmuth Karasek in the German magazine Der Spiegel wrote that the film "had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic."
However, some have doubted the veracity of this incident such as film scholar and historian Martin Loiperdinger (de) in his essay, "Lumiere's Arrival of the Train: Cinema's Founding Myth".
Whether or not it actually happened, the film undoubtedly astonished people in the audience who were unaccustomed to the amazingly realistic illusions created by moving pictures.
The Lumière brothers clearly knew that the effect would be dramatic if they placed the camera on the platform very close to the arriving train.
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