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Standardizing Car Sound---Integrating Europe? International Traffic Noise Abatement and the Emergence of a European Car Identity, 1950--1975 (2012)

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Automobiles Noise and noise abatement Standards and standardization Technology and society Legislative and administrative regulations International cooperation Technology and law Technology and government 20th century, late Europe

The postwar motorization boom in Western Europe implicated rising complaints about road vehicle noise. By the end of the 1960s, traffic noise abatement became an urgent topic for European regulators and automobile engineers. The article investigates how car sound, its measurement and the standardization of measurement procedures developed during the early postwar decades following World War II, and how this relates to European integration. It shows that the standardization of car noise measurement affected market integration and the harmonization of technical regulation on the European level, thus shaping the political integration process. Furthermore, standardization and harmonization stimulated the circulation of knowledge and the rise of a new field of knowledge organized around the standardized and harmonized issues. Although the standardization and harmonization efforts did not result in the homogenization of European automobile technology, they did contribute to the narrative construction of a European car identity.

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Authors & Contributors
Lagendijk, Vincent
Vinsel, Lee Jared
Ana Muñiz
Tom Kane
Brice Laurent
Nick Novelli
Journals
History and Technology
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
Science, Technology and Human Values
Science as Culture
Publishers
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Technology and government
Technology and law
International cooperation
Technology and politics
Standards and standardization
Legislative and administrative regulations
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Modern
19th century
Places
Europe
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
European Union
Canada
Institutions
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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