Acoustics of auditoriums
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BULLETIN
Issued Weekly
Vol. XI MARCH 16, 1914 No. 29
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 11, 1912, at the Post Office at Urbana, Ill., under the Act of Aug. 24, 1912.
BY F. R. WATSON
BULLETIN No. 73 ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION
Published by the University of Illinois, Urbana
Price: Twenty Cents
European Agent Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London
The Engineering Experiment Station was established by act of the Board of Trustees, December 8, 1903. It is the purpose of the Station to carry on investigations along various lines of engineering and to study problems of importance to professional engineers and to the manufacturing, railway, mining, constructional, and industrial interests of the State.
Floyd Rowe Watson
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ACOUSTICS OF AUDITORIUMS
I. Introduction.
II. Behavior of Sound Waves in a Room.
III. Methods of Improving Faulty Acoustics.
A. REVERBERATION AND ITS CURE.
B. ECHOES AND THEIR REMEDY.
C. POPULAR CONCEPTION OF CURES.—USE OF WIRES AND SOUNDING BOARDS.
D. THE EFFECT OF THE VENTILATION SYSTEM ON THE ACOUSTICS.
IV. The Investigation in the Auditorium at the University of Illinois.
A. PRELIMINARY WORK.
B. DETAILS OF THE ACOUSTICAL SURVEY IN THE AUDITORIUM.
C. CONCLUSION DRAWN FROM THE ACOUSTICAL SURVEY.
D. METHODS EMPLOYED TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS.
V. Bibliography of Publications on Acoustics of Auditoriums.
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