Word: soundproofing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stokowski's numerous radio experiments have been loudly publicized. For a time his chief desire was to hear how his music sounded to outsiders, so he had a soundproof glass box made for himself, stood inside it to conduct, listened to his results through a loudspeaker. Later radio officials decided that he would never be satisfied until he had actually handled the controls. An attempt or two convinced him that the job was too finicky to combine with conducting...
...baby grand piano and a combination recording phonograph and radio have been placed in the newly opened Adams House music room for the use of House members. The room, on the ground floor of the new Russell Hall, is virtually soundproof, and is the only one of its type in any House...
...peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown. He wrote...
...last fall at a cost of two millions of dollars, are designed for research purposes and afford scientifically arranged quarters for the three Departments of Physiology, Zoology, and Botany. Located on Divinity Avenue, they are distinguished in that they contain a most elaborate array of laboratory equipment, including greenhouses, soundproof and constant temperature rooms. The founding of the laboratories was made possible through a gift from the Rockefeller Foundation, aided from funds supplied by the Harvard Corporation...
...devoted most painstaking care and study to provide the most complete and comprehensive facilities for the exacting and innumerable experiments necessary in the over widening field of Biological Research. Convenient laboratories of one, two, three, and four units have been furnished with every imaginable service. Constant temperature room, soundproof rooms, photographic rooms, dark rooms, cold rooms, mechanical shops, etc., ect., have been ideally planned and executed. Libraries, lecture rooms, and seminar rooms have been conveniently located on all floors, and, in addition to these, an auditorium in the central portion equipped with the latest of projection and sound recording devices...