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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
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2012
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- Titolo
- Hedys Folly
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Richard Rhodes
- Editore
- Random House USA Inc
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0307742954
- ISBN13
- 9780307742957
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Tecnologia & Ingegneria, Storie vere, Biografie, Storia, Autobiografie e memorie, Scienza, Tecnologia, Biografie di donne
- Valutazione
- 3,15 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.