Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0262026392
- ISBN-13
- 9780262026390
- Category
- Machinery
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Karin Bijsterveld
Description
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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