Measurement of noise from toys

19th National Conference on Noise Control Engineering 2005, Noise-Con 05

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1115-1120

  Altkorn, Robert ^a   Milkovich, Scott ^a   Rider, Gene ^a  

^a RAM Consulting   (United States)

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