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A quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city streets has been developed by sound experts. The device, which sounds a little like a synthesised ...

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A new book by Penn State faculty member Matt Jordan chronicles the rise and fall of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the 20th century. Jordan, ...

Sound permeates the human experience and gets our attention, sometimes traumatically so. Consider the car horn. It is a widespread practical application of this noise-trauma-alert principle -- and an ...

If you can’t stand the harsh, stressful sound of a blaring car horn, you’re not alone. But cities could be about to get a lot quieter after a team of researchers came up with a far more pleasant ...

Researchers are tackling sound pollution from loud car horns by developing a beep which apparently sounds like a duck's quack. The pleasant-sounding horn is designed to alert people to danger while ...

It’s not just ex-NASA engineers who are trying to develop easier-on-the-ear car horns. Researchers in South Korea, too, have been working on creating the ideal honking sound that isn’t as grating as ...