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Author Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016

Title Riding the waves : a life in sound, science, and industry / Leo Beranek
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author
Analysis HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
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Subject Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016
SUBJECT Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016 fast
Subject Acoustical engineering -- United States -- Biography
Music-halls.
concert halls.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Acoustics & Sound.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Acoustical engineering
Music-halls
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262268189
0262268183
9781435627963
1435627962
9780262250658
0262250659