ABSTRACT
Issues with noise and resolving them go back a long time. Texts written on clay tablets at around the time of the Sumerians (3500-1750 BC) mention how the god Enlil was angered by the noise of an overpopulated city, so he apparently flooded the city to remove the noise problem. Several thousand years later, the Romans passed a law that prohibited chariots driving through the cobblestone streets at night, in order to reduce the noise disturbance. More recently, since the late nineteenth century, much empirical research has been carried out on reducing noise in the workplace.
