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| Posted by pastawrangler |
6/2/2017 10:52 PM | remove |
This looks like something out of a test room in a video game. Reminds me of a lot of beta stuff in Half Life 2. What was it really there for? And what's up with the image of the woman on the wall?
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| Posted by Deconstrukt |
6/3/2017 2:43 PM | remove |
This was a sound test chamber for construction materials (gypsum walls mostly), they were probably testing how much sound these could absorb. As for the image of a woman, it was my friend lighting the room while I was doing a long exposure shot.
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| Posted by Deconstrukt |
6/3/2017 2:44 PM | remove |
This was a sound test chamber for construction materials (gypsum walls mostly), they were probably testing how much sound these could absorb. As for the image of a woman, it was my friend lighting the room while I was doing a long exposure shot.
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| Posted by Deconstrukt |
6/3/2017 2:44 PM | remove |
This was a sound test chamber for construction materials (gypsum walls mostly), they were probably testing how much sound these could absorb. As for the image of a woman, it was my friend lighting the room while I was doing a long exposure shot.
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| Posted by HolyMole |
11/17/2017 12:00 AM | remove |
This entire set of information on Domtar Research Centre, Senneville, is a sad and nostalgic voyage for me. I worked there as a lab technician from 1967 - '73. I had no idea until today that the Centre was gone - demolished. In fact, I was Googling Domtar to see what had happened to the company over the years - and was shocked to discover it has basically become an American company. Shocking, because this was one of Canada's largest integrated manufacturing companies during the 1960's, and 70's. There was Domtar newsprint, Domtar Pulp, Domtar Chemicals, Domtar Building Materials, Domtar Metal Powders, etc., etc. During my time, Domtar had pulp and/or paper mills at Labelle-Sur-Quevillon, Windsor and Easy Angus in Quebec, Red Rock, Cornwall and Georgetown in Ontario, etc., etc. At the research centre there were over 60 lab techs and another 60 "professional staff", (chemists, physicists, engineers, etc.) The sound lab was state-of-the-art, (one of the photos here shows some sound lab operating instructions issued by H. Rammus - that was Harry Rammus. I initially worked in the metal powders research lab, (Domtar had a metal powders factory in Montreal, producing mostly iron and steel powders, used to produce parts, mostly for the automotive industry. The powder was poured into molds and pressed at very high pressures, to produce small gears, etc.) Another photo shows the inside of the main entrance, and, opposite the entrance doors, the glassed-in cafeteria. It was a wonderful place to work: out in the country with maybe a 100 acres of beautiful grounds, a baseball diamond, football field, volleyball, etc. All the equipment in the labs and the pilot plant areas was top-notch. In Metal Powders, I worked with Bob Holcomb, Tibor Krantz, Jack Cunnington and Ray Croteau. Later, when Domtar decided to get out of metal powders, I transferred to Coatings Research, working on new/improved coatings for boxboard, fine paper, etc. I worked with Dr. Phoebus Gartaganis and Rene Dauphin. Other techies/professionals were John Dawson, Ralph Cosh, Brian Julien, Rob Duckworth, Keith Grassie, Greg Green, Abe Limonchik, etc. Interestingly, the lab and pilkot plants operated primarily in English, although perhaps a third of the lab technicians were Quebecois. Many of the staff had trnsferred-in from a Domtar research location in Cornwall, ON.
I left Quebec in 1980, to move to B.C. and finally retired in 2006.
I came across this fascinating website by accident. Thank you to whoever it is that put all this sad, nostalgic information on-line.
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| Posted by HolyMole |
11/17/2017 12:09 AM | remove |
To respond to Deconstrukt's post - he/she is correct. Although I didn't work in the Sound Lab, Domtar was a big manufacturer of gyproc, In fact, I think Gyproc was a Domtar tradename). In the lab, they constructed walls of various materials, moved them into guides between two separately-constructed rooms, (each room was mounted on springs, to reduce any sound or vibration). Then they would generate various sound frequencies in one room, and sensitive microphones mounted in the other room would pick up any sound tranmissions that came through the walls.
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