THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Hearing A Pin Fau.. A pin was dropped on a desk by a speaker at the dedication of the new ouiiding of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council in Washington. That pin-fall was perhaps the most significant and widely heard of any in all history. Without being warned to silence, every person in file high-domed, wide-wing-ed hall plainly heard the pin as it struck the woodwork. Thousands of radio listeners hundreds of miles away also heard. Specially designed artificial stone walls made the sound, clear, distinct, without those hollow echoes which characterise high vaulted buildings of the past. That pin-fall sounded an engineering triumph in the longneglected science of acoustics.—Science Service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1924, Page 2
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119THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1924, Page 2
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