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Riding the waves : a life in sound, science, and industry / Leo Beranek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016.
- Beranek, Leo L.
- Acoustical engineering--United States--Biography.
- Acoustical engineering.
- Music-halls.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25065-9
- 1-282-09933-7
- 9786612099335
- 0-262-26818-3
- 1-4356-2796-2
- OCLC:
- 191868013
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