Architect and engineer . ing equip-ment itself. To-day. with new horizonsopening up. made possible by mod-ern methods of recordinq. repro-ducing, amplifying and broadcast-ing of speech and music, freshproblems present themselves to theacoustic designer, and newer andmore perfect acoustic conditionsare demanded. These are largelydue to the differences betweenmonaural and binaural with his ears has thefaculty of discriminpting and pick-ing out sounds to which he wishesto listen, to the exclusion of allother extraneous noises. He canalso perceive to a large extent, thedistance


Architect and engineer . ing equip-ment itself. To-day. with new horizonsopening up. made possible by mod-ern methods of recordinq. repro-ducing, amplifying and broadcast-ing of speech and music, freshproblems present themselves to theacoustic designer, and newer andmore perfect acoustic conditionsare demanded. These are largelydue to the differences betweenmonaural and binaural with his ears has thefaculty of discriminpting and pick-ing out sounds to which he wishesto listen, to the exclusion of allother extraneous noises. He canalso perceive to a large extent, thedistance and direction from whicha sound emanates. Not so the one-cared microphone, which ap-proaches the human being only inits capacity for being contrary, col-lecting and amplifying every noise,desirable and undesirable, in indiscriminate manner. The science of architectural P. F. REILLY Building Contractor and Manager of Construction 30 ELLIS STREETSan Francisco Telephone TUxedo 9656 Good Buildings DeserveGood Hardware. 5S1 larket Street SUtter 6063 Anderson & Ringrose General Contractors 320 Market Street, San FranciscoPhone DOuglas 1373 T I L I IV G in Charles and Kafhieen NorrisGarden House, Palo Alto Birge M. Clark and David B. ClarkArchitects Manufactured by Solon & Scheuiniol 1181 S. Firsf StreetSan Jose 72 The Architect and Engineer. May. 1935 Pacific Manufacturing Company High Class Interior FinishQuality MilKvork 434 Montgomery St. fill Merrill Francisco Los Angeles GArfield 7755 AXridge 9011 ;h Street. OaklandGLencourt 7830 SMITH Lumber Company OF OAKLAND Lumber and Mill Work 19TH AVE. AND ESTUARYOakland, California FRuitvale 3174 G U I L F O YCornice Works General Sheet Metal Work Skylights Fire Doors GUILFOY CORNICE WORKS1234 Howard Street San FranciscoPhone: MArket 0561 TRANSIT-MIXCONCRETE A Perfect-BlendMaterial Golden Gate AtlasMaterials Co. Sixteenth and Harrison Streets San Francisco Phone HEmlock 7020 acoustics also covers problems ofsoun


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