Mechanical Sound

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Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twent

Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a r

Mechanics of Underwater Noise

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Mechanics of Underwater Noise elucidates the basic mechanisms by which noise is generated, transmitted by structures and radiated into the sea. Organized into 1

Music, Sound, and Technology in America

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This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and

Thinking with Sound

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Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900. When the outside world is silent, all