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...scientists' ears were keen enough to distinguish the different sound-waves in the noise caused by a street car, they might be able to cause other sound-waves to neutralize the din. Last week Dr. J. P. Foltz, engineer, invited scientists to the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, East Pittsburgh, Pa. to show them a small contraption which could analyze the street car's rattle-bang-clank-screech. The machine consists of a microphone, an amplifier, a filter circuit which allows only one wavelength at a time to pass to the meter for measuring. Since the machine weighs only...
...tests conducted by the Army Air Corps at McCook Field, Dayton, O., propellers were whirled by highspeed electric motors. Observers passing outside the laboratory reported the din was "like a battery of Liberty engines...
Arthur, however, located the trouble and had the din stopped. It was found that Benny Hyte had left one of the windows partially opened, and due to some trick of the wind, the alarm...
...abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail, was leading by 1,000 yd. At 4:57 p. m. she crossed the finish line amid a din of whistles and an excited babble of radio announcers over two national networks. Shamrock V arrived 2 min. 52 sec. later...
Simon William Straus, distinguished Manhattan banker, lay ill in his room at the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue, complained of the din of passing traffic. Policemen came to abate noise in the neighborhood of the Ambassador, arrested one Robert Heller, architect, for tooting his horn...