|    Hedy's Folly The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr        |
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 | DATE: 2013-05-06  SIZE: 4,31MB   DISKS: 01_______4,77MB      PAGES:        |
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 | PUBLISHER: Vintage Books                     GENRE: Non-Fiction            |
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 | AUTHOR: Richard Rhodes                                                     |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB   PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Hedys-Folly/Rhodes-Richard/Q753218628  |
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 978-0-385-53439-0                                |
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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.                              :
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 : 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.              :