Hedy's folly, the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world, Richard Rhodes
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Hedy's folly, the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world, Richard Rhodes
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
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portraitsplatesillustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hedy's folly
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Richard Rhodes
Sub title
the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world
Summary
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems
Table Of Contents
Hedy Lamarr, inventor -- A charming Austrian girl -- Bad boy of music -- Mechanisms -- Between times -- Leaving Fritz -- Cinemogling -- Frequency hopping -- Flashes of genius -- Red-hot apparatus -- O pioneers!
Target audience
adult
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