Richard Rhodes Hedy s Folly The Life and Breakthrough Inventions torrent

| 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. :