January 10, 1919
Airco DH.4s of the Royal Air Force's No. 2 (Communications) Squadron are converted for transporting passengers and mail between London and Paris, in support of the Versailles Peace Conference.
Died today: Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist, known as "the father of modern architectural acoustics". Born in 1868, Sabine by 1895 was an assistant Physics Professor at Harvard University, when he was given the job of trying to improve the notoriously bad acoustics in the lecture hall at the Fogg Art Museum. With no background in sound at all, Sabine set about the task as he would any other physics problem. He spent several years investigating the acoustic properties of the hall and of the Sanders Theater, considered to have excellent acoustics. After years of experimenting Sabine came up with a formula describing what happens to sound inside various types of lecture and performing halls. Wallace Clement Sabine was dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Applied Science from 1906 through 1915, worked in aeronautics during WW1, and is remembered as the founder of architectural acoustics.
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