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What do you know about noise?

In this section we tell you all about noise - what it is, what sound is, how noise is measured - and we've got some silly facts too.

Man doing audiometry tests on a model head

The Science of Noise

Do you know that sound is measured in decibels or that the word decibel was named after Alexander Grahame Bell, the pioneer of the telephone?
White model human head

Noise trivia

Do you know the word 'listen' has the same letters as the word 'silent'?  Read this section if you want to fill your head with more useless facts.