Transforming noise a history of its science and technology from disturbing sounds to informational errors, 1900-1955
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterise random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant disturbing sounds. In the 1900s-50s, noise underwent a conceptual transformation from unwanted sounds that needed to be domesticated into a synonym for erro...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterise random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant disturbing sounds. In the 1900s-50s, noise underwent a conceptual transformation from unwanted sounds that needed to be domesticated into a synonym for errors and deviations to be now used as all kinds of signals and information. 'Transforming Noise' examines the historical origin of modern attempts to understand, control, and use noise. Its history sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century. In the early 20th century, the concept of noise changed from one of disturbing sounds to one of errors and deviations of signals and information. This book tracks this transformation, and how the modern world attempts to understand, control, and use noise |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 478 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780198887768 978-0-19-888776-8 |