Wallace Sabine’s acoustics work began at Harvard’s request in the 1890s

Evidence

When the Reverend J. A. Zahm, a physics professor at Notre Dame, made this characteristically clear-headed and insightful statement, it was quite true. That was about to change, thanks to a request made to a young assistant professor of physics by Harvard President Charles Eliot. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2445

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up Sabine’s famous Fogg Lecture Hall work and the birth of reverberation-time theory.