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 Whispering Dishes, Blackpill Lido, Swansea, Wales.
N 51° 35.853 W 003° 59.663
30U E 431125 N 5716746
These whispering dishes are located in Blackpill Lido, a play area, on Swansea Bay forshore.
Waymark Code: WMDTBF
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/22/2012
Views: 4
An outdoor whispering gallery. Two orange dishes, resembling satellite dishes are set looking at each other approximately 50 feet apart. When a person whispers into one of the dishes any person at the other dish can hear what was said.
There are no instructions available, just a small diagram.
Scientific Principle(s) being demonstrated:
The dishes demonstrate how sound waves travel, and can be reflected, and focused, just like light.
Briefly explain if the experiment was effective for you. Could it have been better?:
I had two young passer by try it out, but they insisted in shouting into the dish, & yes they could hear each other,
When is the apparatus/experiment available to the public:
Dawn to Dusk , all year round.
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