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Author Beranek, Leo Leroy, 1914-2016.

Title Riding the waves [electronic resource] : a life in sound, science, and industry / Leo Beranek.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 235 p. : ill.
Contents Iowa and beyond: from bumble bees to ivy -- Harvard : shaping the future -- Wartime : communications and kamikazes -- MIT, teaching, writing, AT&T, and traveling -- Bolt Beranek & Newman, the United Nations, big noise, and the Internet -- Muffling the jet age -- Music, acoustics, and architecture -- America's best TV station -- Family, nonprofits, and variety -- Art + physics = beautiful music.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Beranek, Leo Leroy, 1914-
Acoustical engineering -- United States -- Biography.
Music-halls.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262026291 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262026295 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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