WHAT WOMEN HEAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 251, 16 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHAT WOMEN HEAR.

A woman abs.rb, n o<o.u.d than man. E.'tryhody has lotuel low tho I-'CoCtt- 0 of people in a I: re auditorium, or oven a sina.l loom. 1 ills off the 1 ers stint t dice < t at fellow any -o nd m tho roim when it is nearly empty. I, lies now h<ol discovered tat women urn more absorbent of sund i nder those oondit ons than are men, wl i-h is | ossibiv due to softor bodies. Perli.T s this r."w contriliuti n of sc'm e wiT bo mostly useful to newspaper paragraphed, b t tho iir e-tLati ns that turned up this f.ut ha\e mcit pra tical ptonv c

Jt is now feasible, for an arcbite;t to design a theatre or meeting hall so that t' o a'O' sti s will !o good, and t> know in advanc. l that he has s.receded ii his do i n. P.ofosso." Sa' 'n\ ol' Hararcl S ieneo, has devel.i; ed a nntlio' by me ms of nio !e!s that will ic t'o .r'chitect lis op| orti nity.

A model of t: o tiie;it:e is mad.* in cardboard, exaet'y in the ri.ht proportions, I ased on t ie lirehifect's ilrawings lor t' oi ro o-ed a ditori.ini. A siunl i.i then sent into the theatre, model from a point that re; t! e c litre of the stage. Photographs of the inside of the model ate then taken in qui:-k sucesston, from the top or b.i k or font. By an apparatus which is tairly well known in U'-oratorics tho sound waves arc made vivble on the photographic plate, and photographs of the so' ill waves are taken.

I he ;■€ i s i f photographs slows ono main sound wive ;:s it toes to th.o rear if tho acdito:i; in, and tho various hic.iks and echoes, or rebounds from uatls, columns, or seat'-', just as they tike pl.no. With this into'illation, and with the exact knowledge of s amd absorption that Profe.s r Sabine lia-, developed, the architect can alter ihe ar'-angement .'o as to o' tain the most d-sirahle r.cousti s. i role-sor ."Va.bino has sets of such I liot'igraphs for many hiiditoriuins — anion ' tlieni t' e New Theatre, New ' rk

dost how surn I is absorbed lie has determined by a great many tests. An open window mav he said to abso b all the soon I that reaches it, or 100 per (iiit-. H,i r felt will absorb noirlv l'ourlitth- oi it: whi'o brick and plaster end vaiio .s other l»a'»\ building materia's •"hs rb 10.-s than I per cent. Men and wi men al sorb a groit dial—equal fo I a i cr three timet* a.s inuehr.ssc.it i ii-'.l lis, lor instance. I role ser Sabine has succeeded in cl:sing exactly what percentage of abserption may bo expo tod from all common building materials and loom contents.