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Acoustics
A publication of the Acoustical Society of America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6 From the Editor
7 From the President
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Volume 12 | Issue 3 | Fall 2016
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12 Against All Odds: Commercial Sound Recording and Reproduction in Analog Times - by George Brock-Nannestad
Today sound recording is for everyone, but for the first 100 years, it was very mechanical and complex.
22 Smart People Behaving Foolishly:
Lessons from a Career in Scientific Research - by Grace A. Clark
Most management decisions involve politics, so they are often based more on fear and ego than principle. The biggest fear is “looking bad.”
31 Acoustic Metamaterials
- by Michael R. Haberman and Andrew N. Norris
Acoustic metamaterials expand the parameter space of materials available for new acoustical devices by manipulating sound in unconven- tional ways.
40 Underwater Acoustics: A Brief Historical Overview Through World War II
- by Thomas G. Muir and David L. Bradley
Research, discovery, and engineering rise to challenges in times of great peril.
49 Residential Quietude, the Top Luxury Requirement
- by Bonnie Schnitta
The acoustic requirements and laws and the secrets to meeting them for single and multifamily residences.
48 News from the Acoustical Society Foundation - Carl J. Rosenberg
57 Technical Committee Report: Structural Acoustics and Vibration
- Robert M. Koch and Christina J. Naify 61 Obituary
Louis C. Sutherland (1926 - 2016)
62 Book Announcement from ASA Press Bat Bioacoustics
- M.B. Fenton, A.D. Grinnell, A.N. Popper, R.R. Fay (Eds.)
63 Book Review
Foundations of Statistical Energy Analysis in Vibroacoustics - A. Le Bot
Review by Rudolph Martinez
64 Classifieds, Business Directory, Advertisers Index
About The Cover
The etched image on the cover is from the article, Against All Odds: Com- mercial Sound Recording and Repro- duction in Analog Times, pages 12-20 (see Figure 5), by George Brock-Nan- nestad. The figure shows a cylinder phonograph with electrical reproduc- tion, 1908. The stylus of the reproducer acts on a carbon granule microphone as used for telephones, and with an electric battery in series, the telephone headset reproduces the sounds from the cylinder through the funnel. The image is from Max Kohl A. G. Chemnitz, Ger- many, Catalogue No. 50, Appareils de Physique, Tôme III, ca. 1920, p. 1055.
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