A whispering gallery is a large room that is shaped such that if you stand in the right spot, you can be heard everywhere, even if you are whispering. It is a gallery beneath a dome or vault in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the building.
The circular gallery which runs at the point where the vault of the Dome starts to curve inwards, is called the Whispering Gallery.
A whispering gallery is a large room that is shaped such that if you stand in the right spot, you can be heard everywhere, even if you are whispering. It is a gallery beneath a dome or vault in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the building.
In the dome at St. Pauls.
259
the whispering gallery
Percy Robinson has written: 'The whispering gallery'
The Whispering Gallery in the dome and the Crypt.
The Whispering Gallery is in St Paul's dome. There is a walkway round its circumference and you can whisper to someone standing at the other side and they will hear you.
A whispering gallery is usually constructed in the form of an ellipsoid, with an accessible point at each focus. When a visitor stands at one focus and whispers, the line of sound emanating from this focus reflects directly to the dish/focus at the other end of the room, and to the other person. Circular whispering galleries may provide "communication" from any part on the circumference to the diametrically-opposite point on the circumference.
found out today my grandfather who was a wrought iron smith helped make and install them about 55 years ago
Whispering to the Shadows was created in 2002.
Why were whispering galleries built? and what are their sizes?