Transforming Noise - A History of Its Science Technology From Disturbing Sounds to

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern times. The book sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century.

List of contents

• 1.: Introduction


• 2.: Discordance and nuisance


• 3.: Materializing cacophony: surface noise on phonographic records


• 4.: Measuring noise: from ear-balance to self-registration


• 5.: Brownian motion and the origin of stochastic processes


• 6.: Electronic noise in telecommunications


• 7.: Dynamics of Brownian motion


• 8.: Spectrum of random noise


• 9.: A mathematical foundation of fluctuations


• 10.: Noise in radar detection


• 11.: Filtering noise for antiaircraft gunfire control


• 12.: Information, cryptography, and noise


• 13.: Spread-spectrum communication


• 14.: Conclusion

About the author

Professor Chen-Pang Yeang is a historian of science and technology. His areas of research and teaching include physics, electrical engineering, computing, sound technology, information science and technology, and linguistics in the 20th and 21st centuries in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. He is working on three research projects: the discovery of electric waves and their establishment as a scientific effect in 1887-1900, grassroots innovations of digital technologies in China, Taiwan, and the US; and the soundscape of Republican China.

Summary

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern times. The book sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century.

Additional text

Written for advanced researchers and historians with significant mathematical detail and extensive bibliography and index.

Product details

• Authors: Chen-Pang Yeang, Chen-Pang (Associate Professor Yeang, Yeang Chen-Pang
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2023
• EAN: 9780198887768
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888776-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; SCIENCE / History, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Waves & Wave Mechanics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, computer science, History of Science, Theory of music & musicology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Theory of music and musicology, Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)