Hedy's folly:, the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world, Richard Rhodes
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Hedy's folly:, the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world, Richard Rhodes
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eng
resource.biographical
individual biography
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illustrations
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non fiction
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Hedy's folly:
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bibliography
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Richard Rhodes
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the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world
Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spreadDASHspectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together delete comma Hollywood's golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spreadDASHspectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world
Table Of Contents
Hedy Lamarr, inventor -- A charming Austrian girl -- Bad boy of music -- Mechanisms -- Between times -- Leaving Fritz -- Cinemogling -- Frequency hopping -- Flashes of genius -- Red-hot apparatus -- O pioneers!
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