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Hedy's Folly

The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr (book in English)

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by Richard Rhodes

Type: Biographies
Subject: Actor > Hedy Lamarr
Keywords: Hedy Lamarr, actress, star
Publishing Date: 2011
Publisher: Doubleday
Collection: (no collection)
Language: English

Dimensions

Physical desc.

Paperback • 261 pages • ? €
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)
Also available as an eBook.

ISBN

978-0-307-74295-7

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Book Presentation:
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.

Book Presentation:
Réédité en 2012 par Vintage.

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