Hedys Folly - Hardcover

Hedy's Folly. The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. IX, 261 S. / p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / a good and lean copy - What do legendary film siren Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a range of different frequencies. Without it, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Wireless phones, Bluetooth networks, GPS devices, and most.military communications rely on Lamarr and Antheil s breakthrough. -- Only a writer of Richard Rhodes s caliber could do justice to this remarkable chapter in the history of American innovation, which juxtaposes Hollywood s dazzling glamour with the brutal realities of war. -- Silver-screen bombshell Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna in 1913- At the age of seventeen she became notorious for her role in Ecstasy, a scandalously erotic film; at twenty she was unhappily married to an Austrian arms dealer to the Nazis. When she fled, alone, to America before WWII, she took with her not only theatrical talent and beauty but also an unusually thor- ¦ ough knowledge of military technology and its challenges gleaned at her husband s dinner table. An introduction to the dashing George Antheil, a maverick composer and inventor, at a Hollywood gathering culminated two years later in their obtaining a joint patent with the U S. for a jam-proof radio guidance system for torpedoes - the unlikely duo s gift to the Allied war efforb Hedy s Folly transports us to the forests of Austria, I92OS Paris, the depths of the Atlantic, and Golden-Age Hollywood, introducing us along the way to riveting characters plucked from the worlds of science, music, cinema, and the military. Graced by the narrative verve arid historical rigor we ve come to expect from Richard Rhodes, it is a long-overdue celebration of two unusual amateur inventors who collaborated to change the world. ISBN 9780385534383 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 Originalpappband mit Originalschutzumschlag / with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1234181

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