Wallace C. Sabine, acoustical consultant
Leo L. Beranek, John W. Kopec · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1981
Twenty-two correspondence files of Wallace C. Sabine, discovered recently at the Riverbank Laboratory, contain a rich supply of solutions to acoustics and noise control problems. Differing from his published papers [Collected Papers on Acoustics, edited by T. Lyman (Dover, New York, 1964)] and notebooks [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 629–639 (1977)], they are records of Sabine’s extensive activities between 1909 and 1916 as an acoustical consultant. His projects covered auditorium acoustics, building noise transmission, the reduction of noise from industrial plants and from machines. Of interest also are Sabine’s findings on a constant-power sound source, his part in the invention of acoustic tile, and his policies and ethical standards as an acoustical consultant.