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

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

Karin Bijsterveld

350 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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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...

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