Riding the Waves, a Life in Sound, Science and Industry by Leo Beranek - 2008

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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. 0262026295 . Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Gray cloth. x, 235pp. Black and white photographs, acknowledgments, degrees / awards / honors list. Autobiography by the noted businessman, MIT professor and acoustics expert. Promotional material laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge: MIT Press, (2008). Inscribed and signed by the author on plate laid down on front free endpaper. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. A tight, clean and otherwise unmarked copy. 235pp. Illustrated.. ISBN: 9780262026291.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, [2], 235, [1] pages. Illustrations. Ink note on fep. Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 - October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies). He authored Acoustics, considered a classic textbook in this field, and its updated and extended version published in 2012 under the title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers. He was also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses, and authored the classic textbook Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, revised and extended in 2004 under the title Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture. During World War II Beranek managed Harvard's electro-acoustics laboratory, which designed communications and noise reduction systems for World War II aircraft, while at the same time developing other military… Read More

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