Eckel Industries

Eckel Industries
Type	Private
Industry	Materials and Industrial Design
Founded	1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founder(s)	Oliver C. Eckel
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Products	Acoustic control materials and engineering

Eckel Industries is an acoustics noise control company founded 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company engineers and constructs anechoic (echo-free) sound chambers.

Noteworthy Projects

Largest anechoic chamber ever constructed at General Electric in Pittsfield, Massachusetts^[1]
World's quietest room, located at Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Orfield Labs chamber was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2005 as the quietest room on Earth.^[2]^[3]

References

^ An Anechoic Chamber for Noise Tests on Large Power Transformers Benoit, A. W.; Hemmes, R. T.; Schulz, M. W. Power Apparatus and Systems, Part III. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Volume 74, Issue 3, Jan. 1955 Page(s):50 - 56
^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber
^ http://www.tcbmag.com/industriestrends/technology/104458p1.aspx