Hedy s Folly The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr the Most Beautiful Woman in the World 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 ma

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.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Ó Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World || ☆ PDF Read by Ü Richard Rhodes
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Title: Ó Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World || ☆ PDF Read by Ü Richard Rhodes
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Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non fiction which he prefers to call verity , including the Pulitzer Prize winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb 1986 , and most recently, Arsenals of Folly The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race 2007 He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation among others He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S Senate on nuclear energy.