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Bell Labs Indianapolis Anechoic Chamber History

11/17/2015

 
by: Larry Marcus

Built in 1984, the IAR Anechoic Chamber is like me: it’s old but it still works. It has a cutoff frequency of about 120Hz and is about 3 meters by 3.7 meters by 2.6 meters tip-to-tip.  Compare the photo here with the more recent one below in this blog series with the four intrepid IAR founders!

Significant products developed and studies conducted in our anechoic chamber include many IEEE and TIA standards contributions, the first gradient microphones with speakerphones, first extensive ISDN and VoIP testing, first mechanical-acoustical analysis of conference phones, etc., not to mention days upon days of other transducer development and product testing.
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Former Bell Labs colleague Rich Sachs stringing floor cables
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The wedges were white? Must have absorbed so much sound over the years that they've turned yellow!

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