Sounds of Our Times: Two Hundred Years of AcousticsIn 1800, the study of acoustics consisted of z number of isolated areas-music, the ear and the voice, vibrations, and the passage of sound through air. In the years that have followed, the field has expanded enormously. Legendary for its interdisciplinary character, the field today ranges across and draws upon the disciplines of physics, geology, engineering, physiology, and now includes such varied areas of study as medical diagnosis and treatment, music and the design of musical instruments and listening spaces, and the passage of sound waves through every conceivable medium. Sounds of Our Times : Two Hundred Years of Acoustics, the first complete history of acoustics over the past two hundred years, described by one of the preeminent members of today's acoustical community, presents a fascinating portrait of the work of brilliant individuals, the development and use of technology, in the interactions of different parts of the field. The author steers a course between the largely anecdotal history of Dayton C Miller (Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound, 1935) and the meticulously researched effort of F.V. Hunt (Origins in Acoustics, published posthumously in 1978). Sounds of Our Times : Two Hundred Years of Acoustics begins after the period covered by Hunt and follows new developments in the subject almost up to the present day. It also chronicles the development of organizations of acousticians, especially that of the Acoustical Society of America, and contains many historical illustrations never before available in a single volume. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - name99 - LibraryThingA history of acoustics over the last two hundred years. Not the most scintillating writing, and I wish a lot of the material mentioned had been discussed as science, not just as history, but basically it did what I wanted it to do which was to give me an overview of acoustics beyond the basics. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
The State of Acoustics in 1800 | 1 |
Chladni and Young | 2 |
12 Sound Propagation | 4 |
Sound Velocity in Liquids and Solids | 6 |
Diffraction Reflection | 7 |
Echoes | 8 |
13 Sound Production | 9 |
The Human Voice | 11 |
Atmospheric Acoustics | 195 |
Aeroacoustics | 197 |
Cavitation | 202 |
76 Structural Vibrations | 204 |
77 Noise | 206 |
78 Hearing | 207 |
79 Speech | 210 |
710 Musical Acoustics | 216 |
Artificial Voice | 12 |
Vibrating Strings | 13 |
Vibrating Plates | 14 |
Singing Flames | 15 |
14 Sound Reception | 17 |
Teaching of the Deaf | 19 |
Tartini Tones | 20 |
Overview | 21 |
Acoustics 18001850 | 27 |
22 Artificial Sources of Sound | 29 |
23 The Human Voice | 31 |
24 The Tuning Fork | 32 |
The Adiabatic Sound Velocity | 33 |
26 Velocity of the Sound in a Solid | 36 |
27 Sound and Vibrations in Two Dimensions | 37 |
29 Sound Absorption in Fluids | 39 |
210 FiniteAmplitude Sound | 40 |
211 Sound Reception | 41 |
The Stroboscope | 42 |
213 Fourier Analysis | 44 |
214 The Stethoscope | 45 |
215 Hearing | 46 |
216 Room Acoustics | 48 |
217 Teaching of the Deaf | 50 |
von Helmholtz and Tyndall | 55 |
32 On Sensations of Tone | 57 |
Combinations of Vibrations | 58 |
The Ear | 63 |
Interruptions of Harmony | 65 |
The Relationship of Musical Tones | 68 |
33 John Tyndall 18201893 Fig 38 | 70 |
On Sound | 72 |
Notes and References | 79 |
Lord Rayleigh and His Book | 83 |
42 His First Researches | 85 |
43 His Interaction with Tyndall | 87 |
44 Summary of his Later Career | 89 |
46 The Theory of Sound | 90 |
47 The Period 18771894Between Editions | 91 |
The Rayleigh Disk | 92 |
Vibration Theory | 93 |
Musical Acoustics | 94 |
Aeroacoustics | 95 |
Surface Waves | 97 |
48 The Second Edition of The Theory of Sound 1894 | 99 |
Inventors to the Fore | 103 |
52 Joseph Henry | 104 |
53 Henry and the Telegraph | 107 |
First Stirrings | 108 |
56 Alexander Graham Bell The Early Years | 111 |
57 Bells Telephone | 114 |
58 Thomas Alva Edison Fig 59 | 119 |
59 Further Work on the Telephone | 120 |
510 The Phonograph | 123 |
Overview | 126 |
The Last Half of the Nineteenth Century | 131 |
62 Sound Absorption in Fluids | 133 |
63 Vibrating Systems | 134 |
64 Structural Vibrations | 136 |
66 The Birth of Seismology | 137 |
67 Devices for Making Sound Visible | 138 |
68 Shock Waves | 144 |
69 Nonlinear Acoustics | 148 |
610 Hearing | 150 |
611 Speech | 154 |
612 Music | 155 |
613 Architectural Acoustics | 158 |
614 Harbingers of the Future | 160 |
Magnetostriction | 162 |
Piezoelectricity | 163 |
AcoustoOptics | 166 |
Response to Stimuli | 168 |
Overview | 169 |
The Twentieth Century The First Quarter | 177 |
The Microphone | 178 |
Amplifiers Vacuum Tubes and Vacuum Tube Amplifiers | 182 |
The Oscillator | 183 |
The Oscilloscope | 184 |
Acoustic Impedance | 185 |
72 Architectural Acoustics | 186 |
73 Physical Acoustics | 191 |
711 The Origin of the Decibel | 219 |
Overview | 222 |
The Second Quarter of the Twentieth Century | 231 |
81 The Acoustical Society of America | 232 |
82 Ultrasonic Absorption and Dispersion | 234 |
Liquids Experimental | 235 |
Liquids Theoretical | 238 |
83 Other Ultrasonic Effects in Fluids | 241 |
LowTemperature Acoustics | 242 |
84 Ultrasound in Solids | 244 |
85 Medical Ultrasonics | 245 |
86 Other Applications of Ultrasonics | 246 |
87 Nonlinear Acoustics | 247 |
88 Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics | 248 |
89 Underwater Sound | 249 |
810 Bioacoustics | 255 |
Echolocation by Bats | 258 |
812 Noise and its Control | 260 |
813 Architectural Acoustics | 263 |
814 Physiological Acoustics | 264 |
815 Psychological Acoustics | 270 |
Quantification of Psychoacoustics | 271 |
Loudness | 272 |
Pitch | 274 |
Masking and Time Resolution | 275 |
816 Speech | 276 |
817 Music | 282 |
Overview | 285 |
The Third Quarter 19501975 | 299 |
91 Societies and Journals | 300 |
92 Physical Acoustics | 301 |
Creeping Waves | 302 |
Ultrasonics in Fluids | 304 |
LowTemperature Acoustics | 307 |
93 Ultrasonics in Solids | 310 |
94 Aeroacoustics | 314 |
95 More Nonlinear Acoustics | 316 |
96 Underwater Sound | 317 |
97 Animal Echolocation | 324 |
98 Signal Processing | 325 |
910 Seismic Waves | 326 |
Sources | 327 |
Effects of Noise on Man and Animals | 331 |
Noise Reduction | 332 |
912 Architectural Acoustics | 334 |
913 Physiological Acoustics | 340 |
The Ear Passage | 341 |
Cochlear Mechanics | 342 |
914 Psychological Acoustics | 344 |
Pitch | 346 |
915 Speech | 347 |
Speech Production | 348 |
Speech Intelligibility | 352 |
Speech Recognition | 353 |
916 Music | 356 |
Overview | 358 |
Notes and References | 359 |
Acoustics 19751995 and Beyond Fin de siecleAgain | 375 |
102 Nonlinear Acoustics Radiation Pressure and Levitation | 376 |
103 Solitons | 377 |
104 Chaos | 379 |
106 Underwater Sound Internal Waves | 383 |
107 Global Scale Acoustics | 384 |
109 Weakly Absorbing Media | 386 |
1010 Structural Acoustics and Vibration Fuzzy Structural Acoustics | 387 |
Active Sound and Vibration Control | 389 |
1011 Architectural Acoustics Auditorium Design | 390 |
1012 Acoustic Instrumentation | 393 |
Otoacoustic Emission | 397 |
Aids to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | 398 |
Hearing Aids | 399 |
Cochlear Implants | 401 |
Hair Cell Regeneration | 404 |
1014 Psychological Acoustics | 406 |
A Final View | 409 |
Notes and References | 410 |
A Book Review by Herman von Helmholtz Nature 17 237239 Jan 24 1878 | 419 |
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