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 ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Sue Smith on behalf of Mr. Alistair Donald and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr. Donald fully understands the site’s terms and ...

The baritone-voiced Houston Chronicle star-shaped art car honked away happily. So did the lighter-toned Jesusmobile. Undoubtedly the 350-horsepower engine hidden by acres of polished wood on another ...

A chain of stores where those items could be found in metallic form no longer exists – the Western Auto Supply Stores. The company was founded in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri by George Pepperdine, ...

Matthew Jordan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Miller Reese Hutchison showed signs of his inventive genius early on. Born August 6, 1876, in Montrose, Ala., Hutchison received his first patent while at Auburn University and would eventually become ...

I had a an MoT carried out on my motor caravan this year. It failed on a rear binding brake and I was told to take the wheel off and tap the brake drum to free the brakes from binding. I did this and ...