Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008)
Bijsterveld, Karin (Author)
MIT Press
Physical Details: xii + 350 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description “Looks at four episodes of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise, traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and gramophones, and aircraft noise.” (from the publisher)
Review Outi Ampuja (2009) Review of "Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 151-151).
Review Kursell, Julia (2009) Review of "Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 942).
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