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

ISBN: 0262026392

ISBN13: 9780262026390

Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the 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, and gramophones, with campaigns featuring conferences, exhibitions, and "silence weeks." And, as Karin Bijsterveld points out in Mechanical Sound, public discussion of noise has never...

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