Hedy's Folly

The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr

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by Richard Rhodes

Type

Biographies

Subject

Actress > Hedy Lamarr

Keywords

Hedy Lamarr, actress, star

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Doubleday

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 261 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

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.

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