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in London. The extent to which the sound travels at St Paul's can also be judged by clapping in the gallery, which produces four echoes. Other historical examples are the
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can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery. Such galleries can also be set up using two parabolic dishes. Sometimes the phenomenon is detected in caves.
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enclosure will also guide whispering gallery waves. The waves carry the words so that others will be able to hear them from the opposite side of the gallery.
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at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts allows visitors to enter the interior of a reflecting surface forming a nearly complete sphere
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communication from any part of the internal side of the circumference to any other part. The sound is carried by waves, known as
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Granary at Bankipore, and irregularly shaped smooth-walled galleries in the form of caves, such as the
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W. C. Sabine, Collected Papers on Acoustics (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA) 1922, p. 255.
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A whispering gallery is most simply constructed in the form of a circular wall, and allows
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Peiping (American National Red Cross, American Red Cross Embassy Club) 1946, p. 17.
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Lord Rayleigh, The problem of the whispering gallery, Philos. Mag. 20, 1001,1910.
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Lord Rayleigh, Theory of Sound, vol. II, 1st edition, (London, MacMillan), 1878.
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Official Website of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
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O. Wright, Gallery of Whispers, Physics World 25, No. 2, Feb. 2012, p. 31.
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has been borrowed in the physical sciences to describe other forms of
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Room in which sound echoes and is magnified in an unusual way
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A whispering gallery can be found on the main floor of the
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The Berkeley Wetherspoons Bristol has a whispering gallery.
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The entrance gallery of the Aston Webb Great Hall at the
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St Paul's Cathedral
hemispherical
elliptical
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vault
whispers
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whispering-gallery waves
St Paul's Cathedral
Gol Gumbaz
Temple of Heaven
hemispherical
ellipse
ellipsoid
focus
parabolic dishes
acoustic mirrors
Golghar
Ear of Dionysius
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excessive
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