Talk:Whispering gallery

Eavesdropping
Didn't a President use a Whispering gallery in either the white house or the capital to easedrop? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.241.245.49 (talk) 18:10, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes: at the capitol (which you misspelled, by the way). Also, the term is eavesdrop, not easedrop. 128.12.42.36 (talk) 04:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

External Link
The mention of Caltech/JPL should route to Whispering Gallery mode, and the external link therof should be purged and moved to the WGM, too. MKV 20:52, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Revision of article
The mention of Whispering Gallery Modes from the University of Bristol was moved to the Whispering Gallery Waves pageFemtoquake (talk) 02:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Some text on Whispering Gallery waves at the bottom of the article was zapped because of the creation of a new page of that name with overlapping content. The present article is concerned with architectural examples.Femtoquake (talk) 03:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Scientific Explanation Problematic
I believe the explanation of the effect is partially incorrect, or at least misleading. It looks like the assertion is that a curved wall behaves as a conventional reflector with a focal point (as in geometrical optics), but looking at the introduction of the article for the Whispering-gallery wave effect, one can see that the above explanation is simplistic in that the effect depends on resonance which would allow the acoustic wave to take the less direct path (mode) across the curved surface of a wall, and not directly through the air.

This is a significant distinction. While direct acoustic reflection obviously occurs in some cases (parabolic reflectors in a science museum is the classic artificial example), this other propagation mode which depends on the wave nature of sound is not even mentioned in this article. I'm not confident enough in my assertion to edit the article myself but I would be curious to see some input about this.

130.199.3.165 (talk) 20:45, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

-Jhaupt (talk) 22:12, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Sequence of examples
For the United States the sequence of entries appears to be random. Some thoughts 1. Order by name of feature. 2. Order by state and within state by city and within city by name of feature? Note: One entry is for two states? 3. Sequence does not matter. Greenwayfriend (talk) 01:33, 11 June 2017 (UTC)