The Importance of Silence in the Modern Era

I was recently reading Thomas Carlisle who Orwell absolutely loathed but Carlisle was one of the first people to ever have a soundproof room. In Carlisle's case it never works I mean it's a hilarious account of an attempt to build a silent box in London and it's failure. Did it fail just because Carlisle was so loud or was it actually to do with the information? A feature is just domestic architecture of the period wouldn't let it happen. That seems to make it all that more humorous but it doesn't. My next book will be on, I might rather look about this isolation event itself but if I write a long term history it's going on in history of