The Resource Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, (electronic resource)
Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, (electronic resource)
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The item Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven?tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig?nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Richard Rhodes's caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent but also a gift for technical innovation. An introduction to Antheil at a Hollywood dinner table culminated in a U.S. patent for a jam- proof radio guidance system for torpedoes?the unlikely duo's gift to the U.S. war effort. What other book brings together 1920s Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole? In its juxtaposition of Hollywood glamour with the reality of a brutal war, Hedy's Folly is a riveting book about unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world
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- eng
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- 9780307940605
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- Hedy's Folly
- Title
- Hedy's Folly
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Rhodes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven?tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig?nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Richard Rhodes's caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent but also a gift for technical innovation. An introduction to Antheil at a Hollywood dinner table culminated in a U.S. patent for a jam- proof radio guidance system for torpedoes?the unlikely duo's gift to the U.S. war effort. What other book brings together 1920s Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole? In its juxtaposition of Hollywood glamour with the reality of a brutal war, Hedy's Folly is a riveting book about unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
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- 1937-
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- Rhodes, Richard
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- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
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- Dunne, Bernadette
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- Biography & Autobiography
- Performing Arts
- Nonfiction
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- Label
- Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, (electronic resource)
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- stereophonic
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- online
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- Isbn
- 9780307940605
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- digital recording
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- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780307940605
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 4c280969-137e-444e-ba11-ae3d11a93f96
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
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- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
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