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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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Hedys Folly, Richard Rhodes
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
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- Titel
- Hedys Folly
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Richard Rhodes
- Verlag
- Random House USA Inc
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0307742954
- ISBN13
- 9780307742957
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Technologie & Industrie, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Geschichte, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Wissenschaft, Technologie, Biografien von Frauen
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- 3,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.