Editing Gong (section)

=== Dinner gong ===

During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, it was often the custom in hotels, on ships, and in large, upper-class houses to sound a ''dinner gong'' to announce a meal was about to be served.<ref name="Iengar2002">{{cite book|author=Haravu Venkatanarasingha Verada Raj Iengar|title=Snapshots of History: Through the Writings of H.V.R. Iengar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owxuAAAAMAAJ|quote="As we were walking through the corridor he showed me the dinner gong, which customarily is sounded by one of the servants to announce that a meal was ready ."|year=2002|publisher=Ananya Publications}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON MAGAZINE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA257|year=1855|quote="How startling is the sound of the dinner gong The tympanum suddenly recoils beneath the swell of the brazen instrument and echoes the alarum to its fellow member of the lower house of which Appetite is the speaker. In a large hotel the effect is magical What a rush from all quarters of the house to the dining room!"|pages=257}}</ref><ref name="Greer2003">{{cite book|author=Jane Greer|title=Girls and literacy in America: historical perspectives to the present|quote="The dinner gong rang, so I walked to the mess hall slowly with my sister."|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9791576076667}}</ref>