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Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world
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Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world

Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, ©2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Hedy Lamarr
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Rhodes
ISBN: 9780385534383 0385534388 9780385534390 0385534396
OCLC Number: 707235824
Description: ix, 261 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Hedy Lamarr, inventor --
A charming Austrian girl --
Bad boy of music --
Mechanisms --
Between times --
Leaving Fritz --
Cinemogling --
Frequency hopping --
Flashes of genius --
Red-hot apparatus --
O pioneers!
Responsibility: Richard Rhodes.

Abstract:

Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.

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