Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

MIT Press (2008)
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Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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0262026392   0262534231   9780262026390
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