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Title: Hedy’s Folly: the Life & Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Author: RHODES RICHARD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/08/2012
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $31.00
Publishing status: Active
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum 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 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 spread-spectrum radio’s genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.”
ISBN: 9780307742957
Weight: 272g
Dimension: 203mm X 132mm
Pages: 288