Book ID: CBB000850349

Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008)

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Bijsterveld, Karin (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2008
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)


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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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wittje, Roland
Dannecker, Peter
Cugini, Umberto
Genta, Giancarlo
Wallace, Harold Duane
Selvini, Attilio
Concepts
Technology
Industry
Technology and society
Radio
Engineering
Noise and noise abatement
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Italy
United States
Middle and Near East
Saudi Arabia
West Germany
Americas
Institutions
Olivetti S.p.A (Firm)
Bell Telephone Laboratories
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