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Riding the Waves : A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262268189
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Riding the WavesLOC classification:
  • TA140.B385A3 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Iowa and Beyond: From Bumblebees to Ivy -- 2 Harvard: Shaping the Future -- 3 Wartime: Communications and Kamikazes -- 4 MIT, Teaching, Writing, AT&amp -- T, and Traveling -- 5 Bolt Beranek &amp -- Newman, the United Nations, Big Noise, and the Internet -- 6 Muffling the Jet Age -- 7 Music, Acoustics, and Architecture -- 8 America's Best TV Station -- 9 Family, Nonprofi ts, and Variety -- 10 Art + Physics = Beautiful Music -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Degrees, Awards, and Honors.
Summary: The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, busisess leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Iowa and Beyond: From Bumblebees to Ivy -- 2 Harvard: Shaping the Future -- 3 Wartime: Communications and Kamikazes -- 4 MIT, Teaching, Writing, AT&amp -- T, and Traveling -- 5 Bolt Beranek &amp -- Newman, the United Nations, Big Noise, and the Internet -- 6 Muffling the Jet Age -- 7 Music, Acoustics, and Architecture -- 8 America's Best TV Station -- 9 Family, Nonprofi ts, and Variety -- 10 Art + Physics = Beautiful Music -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Degrees, Awards, and Honors.

The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, busisess leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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