Book ID: CBB000774361

Riding the Waves: A Life of Sound, Science, and Industry (2008)

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Beranek, Leo L. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: x + 230 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Description On the life of Leo Beranek, American acoustic engineer and inventor.


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Review Thomas, William (2011) Review of "Riding the Waves: A Life of Sound, Science, and Industry". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 581). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bijsterveld, Karin
Caputo, Francesco
Garberi, Roberto C.
Yao, Ya-xin
Yang, Jian
Wittje, Roland
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
The Senses and Society
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Pavia University Press
World Scientific
The MIT Press
MIT Press
Knopf
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Concepts
Technology
Autobiographies
Engineering
Computers and computing
Acoustics
Industry
People
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Kármán, Theodor von
Ye, Qisun
Von Neumann, John
Teller, Edward
Szilard, Leo
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Russia
Italy
Norway
Hungary
China
Institutions
International Business Machines Corporation
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