Whispering Wall, located in the train station inside New York’s Grand Central, is one of the most interesting buildings. What makes this building interesting is that it has walls that allow us to whisper and make our voices heard even in the most crowded environments.
Whether it is the number of stops, the area it covers within the city or the number of passengers it carries, Grand Central Terminal in New York It has the distinction of being the largest train station in the world. This magnificent structure, built in 1913, 750,000 visitors welcomes.
Of course, the reason why Grand Central Terminal hosts so many guests in a day is not just because it is a train station. One of the different features of Grand Central from other stations is that it has a station located on the lower floor of the station. with whisper gallery to be.
So why is this special place in the north gallery of Grand Central Terminal called the “Whisper Gallery”?
Every day, last calls for trains, people getting off the train and the voices of those greeting them create a huge noise in Grand Central Terminal. Of course, we could not expect the train station, which hosts an average of 750,000 people every day, to be quiet. all this You can even hear whispers among the noise. would you think? This is possible in the Whisper Gallery…
Covering an area of exactly 49 acres, the station was built in 1871. It was used as a central warehouse and the area he used was quite small. However, after years of renovations, it was opened for use as a station in 1913 and began to cover more than 60 tracks. So much so that the fourth floor of the station a tennis court as big as
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If one day you pass by Whisper Gallery downstairs You can find it in the food court, right next to the popular Oyster Bar & Restaurant. on this floor four-arched corners is available. A person turning to one of the arches can hear the whisper of the person standing in the other arch, even if the surroundings are very noisy. But how?
The engineering marvel behind the Whisper Gallery allows us to hear whispers.
Image: Tile-inlaid ceilings of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
The striking walls of Grand Central Terminal Rafael GuastavinoIt is the work of . Gustavino, a tile master, covered the station’s ceilings with his own tile works. These processes also “Gustavino” was named.
these tiles a curved ceiling It creates. The ceiling tiles are tightly packed and there is no ventilation. Therefore, there is no place for sound waves to disappear.
Also at the station any material that can absorb sound It is not available. So when we just stand in one arch and whisper, the sound waves are trapped and travel up and into another arch. This way, someone standing in the other belt can hear our voice. That’s why the structure is called Whisper Gallery. (Whisper Wall) was named.
So why do people who come to the Whisper Gallery love it so much?
Image: A man turning to an archway and whispering in the Whisper Gallery.
A place that hosts an average of 750,000 people a day be quiet and calm we can’t wait. However, being able to hear the whispers reaching from one arch to another in the Whisper Gallery, and people who sometimes cannot hear each other even when they are side by side in a huge noise, can hear the whispers in this way, exciting It must be.
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