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Wallace Sabine and the Discovery of RT60 — How One Man Invented Architectural Acoustics in 1900
In 1895, Wallace Clement Sabine was asked to fix a lecture hall at Harvard. Over the next five years, he derived the formula T = 0.161V/A, designed Boston Symphony Hall, and created the science of architectural acoustics. The full story of the most important equation in room acoustics.
March 14, 2026Wallace Sabinehistory of acoustics