A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 605
his type is the StatueHall — the old chamber of the House of Rep-resentatives— in the Capitol at Washington.The ceiling of this is a very considerable por-tion of the surface of a sphere whose centre isnear the floor. Standing at the centre of thissphere, one can hear his own whisper returnedto… … WHITE For any position of tlie speaker tliere is a cor-responding point at which the whisper is moreor less accurately focussed. The ceiling, paintedso that it appears deeply panelled, is smooth.Had the ceiling been panelled, the reflectionwould have been irregidar ami tlie eftect verymuch reduced.…
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