Some interesting history of acoustics, acousticians, and
acoustical consulting. You may be surprised to find where the CIA
started and who really invented and built the Internet.
History of the Acoustical Society of America
Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories built for W. C. Sabine by an eccentric character with an interest in cryptography and acoustical levitation
J.C.R Licklider, President of ASA, has this idea about computers talking to one another
There was this acoustical consulting firm, Bolt Beranek and Newman that developed expertise in linking computers together and invented the modem. When Licklider convinced the Army to build a computer network, BBN was there to build the beginning of the internet and to develop the email system as we know it today.
The ARPANET forerunner of the Internet
Leo Beranek - Oral History Interview 1996
Leo Beranek - Oral History Interview 2 2005
Sound Recording Research at Bell Laboratories