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

by Karin Bijsterveld

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

Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534231
• ISBN13: 9780262534239
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher