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.Spatent 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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
288 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Random House USA Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2012-08-07 |
| ISBN |
9780307742957 |
