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Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

So it is no surprise that the science of acoustics spreads across so many facets of our society — music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more.

Art, craft, science and technology have provoked one another to advance the whole, as in many other fields of knowledge.

Robert Bruce Lindsay's ' Wheel of Acoustics ' is a well accepted overview of the various fields in acoustics.