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ONE might justly express surprise that a report under this title should deal with an acute social problem of this critical stage in our civilization. “The gramophone and the loud-speaker are undoubtedly the greatest source of difficulty in a modern building. Not only have they become almost universal but year by year they become capable of greater undistorted acoustic output and the tendency is for them to be worked at a higher level of sound intensity on account of the greater realism which can thereby be obtained,” say the authors of this report. Their main concern is to show how the fundamental principles which have been found to underlie modern types of sound-insulated structure must be put into building practice if good-neighbourliness is to survive in the life of the modern city.
Sound Transmission in Buildings
Practical Notes for Architects and Builders. By R. Fitzmaurice and William Allen. (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.) Pp. viii + 50. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1939.) 4s. net.
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Technology of Sound Transmission. Nature 146, 417 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146417a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146417a0