1933 RARE Antique Bk FATHER ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS Wallace Clement Sabine
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:17094880 | Topic: Architecture, Acoustics |
| Original/Facsimile: Original | Binding: Hardcover |
| Special Attributes: 1st Edition | Subject: Science & Medicine |
WALLACE CLEMENT SABINE
A STUDY IN ACHIEVEMENT
by William Dana Orcutt
Norwood, MA: 1933, "Privately Printed by the Plimpton Press"
A presentation copy: "To Dr. Edmund H. Stevens from Jane D. Kelly Sabine, MD"
Jane Downes Kelly (Mrs Wallace Clement Sabine), 348 Marlboro St., Boston. Physician and surgeon; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '88; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Med. Coll., Chicago, M.D. '94; student Johns Hopkins Univ. Med. School, 1894-1895; m. Bo...ston, Mass. Aug. 22, 1900, Wallace Clement Sabine, A.M. (prof. physics, Harvard Univ.); one daughter: Janet, b. Oct. 23, 1903. Engaged in teaching 1889-90. Practising medicine in Boston since 1895.
Source: Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary, 1914-1915. John William Leonard, p. 710.
Edmund H. Stevens, 77, for more than 50 years a practicing physician at Porter Station, was tendered a dinner in Hotel Somerset, Boston on Monday evening by more than a hundred physicians of Boston and this city. Dr. Stevens was attending the Harvard Medical school when the Civil War started. At the call for volunteers he interrupted his studies to enlist and was with Farragut in the battle of Mobile Bay, and with Grant at Appomattox Court House, witnessing the surrender of Lee. He was wounded in the battle of Mobile Bay. At the close of the war he returned to Harvard, completed his studies and was graduated in the class of 1867. After serving four years as resident physician on Deer Island, he came to this city am opened an office at Porter Station and is still in active practice with his headquarters in the same house, a period of 52 years. [He died in November 1932, so presumably, Sabine's wife, Jane, presented this copy just before its release]
WALLACE CLEMENT SABINE
In 1895 Wallace Clement Sabine [1868-1919] a physicist, was instructed by the Corporation of Harvard University to remedy acoustical difficulties in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum. Two years were spent experimenting in this room, and permanent changes were made. About this time it became certain that a new Boston Music Hall would be erected. From there followed much to Sabine's surprise a vocation for a new branch of physics: architectural acoustics, drawing on the physical science of Helmholtz, Rayleigh and others. Sabine was the first to bring quantitative measures to bear on reverberation, absorption, and sound transmittance. The Sabine equation for reverberation is really the most important quantitative tool in architectural acoustics, being able to predict how 'wet' or 'dry' a room is. 'In order that hearing may be good... it is necessary that the sound should be sufficiently loud; that the simultaneous components of a complex sound should maintain their proper relative intensities; and that the successive sounds in rapidly moving articulation, either of speech or music, should be clear and distinct, free from each other and from extraneous noises. 'Sound, being energy, once produced in a confined space, will continue until it is either transmitted by the boundary walls, or it is transformed into some other kind of energy, generally heat. This process of decay is called absorption. 'Any opening into the outside space, provided the outside space is itself unconfined, may be regarded as being totally absorbing.'
Sabine is now frequently referred to as the "FATHER OF ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS"GREAT physics collectible!!
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A STUDY IN ACHIEVEMENT
by William Dana Orcutt
Norwood, MA: 1933, "Privately Printed by the Plimpton Press"
A presentation copy: "To Dr. Edmund H. Stevens from Jane D. Kelly Sabine, MD"
Jane Downes Kelly (Mrs Wallace Clement Sabine), 348 Marlboro St., Boston. Physician and surgeon; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '88; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Med. Coll., Chicago, M.D. '94; student Johns Hopkins Univ. Med. School, 1894-1895; m. Bo...ston, Mass. Aug. 22, 1900, Wallace Clement Sabine, A.M. (prof. physics, Harvard Univ.); one daughter: Janet, b. Oct. 23, 1903. Engaged in teaching 1889-90. Practising medicine in Boston since 1895.
Source: Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary, 1914-1915. John William Leonard, p. 710.
Edmund H. Stevens, 77, for more than 50 years a practicing physician at Porter Station, was tendered a dinner in Hotel Somerset, Boston on Monday evening by more than a hundred physicians of Boston and this city. Dr. Stevens was attending the Harvard Medical school when the Civil War started. At the call for volunteers he interrupted his studies to enlist and was with Farragut in the battle of Mobile Bay, and with Grant at Appomattox Court House, witnessing the surrender of Lee. He was wounded in the battle of Mobile Bay. At the close of the war he returned to Harvard, completed his studies and was graduated in the class of 1867. After serving four years as resident physician on Deer Island, he came to this city am opened an office at Porter Station and is still in active practice with his headquarters in the same house, a period of 52 years. [He died in November 1932, so presumably, Sabine's wife, Jane, presented this copy just before its release]
WALLACE CLEMENT SABINE
In 1895 Wallace Clement Sabine [1868-1919] a physicist, was instructed by the Corporation of Harvard University to remedy acoustical difficulties in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum. Two years were spent experimenting in this room, and permanent changes were made. About this time it became certain that a new Boston Music Hall would be erected. From there followed much to Sabine's surprise a vocation for a new branch of physics: architectural acoustics, drawing on the physical science of Helmholtz, Rayleigh and others. Sabine was the first to bring quantitative measures to bear on reverberation, absorption, and sound transmittance. The Sabine equation for reverberation is really the most important quantitative tool in architectural acoustics, being able to predict how 'wet' or 'dry' a room is. 'In order that hearing may be good... it is necessary that the sound should be sufficiently loud; that the simultaneous components of a complex sound should maintain their proper relative intensities; and that the successive sounds in rapidly moving articulation, either of speech or music, should be clear and distinct, free from each other and from extraneous noises. 'Sound, being energy, once produced in a confined space, will continue until it is either transmitted by the boundary walls, or it is transformed into some other kind of energy, generally heat. This process of decay is called absorption. 'Any opening into the outside space, provided the outside space is itself unconfined, may be regarded as being totally absorbing.'
Sabine is now frequently referred to as the "FATHER OF ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS"GREAT physics collectible!!
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