 If two persons placed at distant points speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar effect is produced in the vestibule of the observatory of Paris, and in the cupola of St. Paul's, London. A tourist has mentioned that...  Sound and Its Phenomena - Page 312by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 938 pages
...Gloucester, there is, or was lately, a w hupering gallery above the eastern extremity of the i-'ii'jir, which extends from one end of the church to the other. If two persons, placed at considerably distant points, speak to oue another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...there is, or was lately, a whispering gallery above the eastern extremity of the clioir, which exteuds from one end of the church to the other. If two persons, placed at considerably distant pointi, speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 344 pages
...ellipsis. In the cathedral church of Gloucester, England, there is, or was, a whispering gallery about the eastern extremity of the choir, which extends from...the church to the other. If two persons placed at distant points speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar effect is... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Astronomy - 1844 - 370 pages
...ellipsis. In the cathedral church of Gloucester, England, there is, or was, a whispering gallery about the eastern extremity of the choir, which extends from...the church to the other. If two persons placed at distant points speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar effect is... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's literature - 1852 - 372 pages
...ellipsis. In the cathedral church of Gloucester, England, there is, or was, a whispering gallery about the eastern extremity of the choir, which extends from...the church to the other. If two persons placed at distant points speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar effect is... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 832 pages
...focus of the ellipse. In the cathedral church of Gloucester, there is a whispering-gallery above the eastern extremity of the choir, which extends from...the church to the other. If two persons, placed at considerably distant points, speak to one another in the lowest voice, it is distinctly heard. A similar... | |
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