Eckel Industries
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Materials and Industrial Design |
| Founded | 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Founder | Oliver C. Eckel |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Products | Acoustic control materials and engineering |
Eckel Industries is an acoustics noise control company founded 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company engineers and constructs anechoic (echo-free) sound chambers.
Noteworthy Projects[edit]
- Largest anechoic chamber ever constructed at General Electric in Pittsfield, Massachusetts[1]
- World's quietest room, located at Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Orfield Labs chamber was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2005 as the quietest room on Earth.[2][3]
- The Eckel anechoic chamber located at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the quietest place on earth in 2015, measuring -20.6 dB.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ An Anechoic Chamber for Noise Tests on Large Power Transformers Benoit, A. W.; Hemmes, R. T.; Schulz, M. W. Power Apparatus and Systems, Part III. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Volume 74, Issue 3, Jan. 1955 Page(s):50 - 56
- ^ Anechoic chamber
- ^ "The Quietest Room in the World | Industries & Trends | Twin Cities Business". Archived from the original on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ^ "Why Microsoft Just Created the Quietest Place on Earth and Made World Record". 2 October 2015.
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