Hedy's Folly

Author : Richard Rhodes

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 7 August 2012

ISBN : 9780307742957

Price : €17.54

Description

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, Hedys 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 weve come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radios genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.

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