E-audiobook
Hedy's folly [the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world]
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307940605 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307940608 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 sound file (5 hr., 51 min., 44 sec.) : digital. - Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Bernadette Dunne. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 84246 KB). |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Lamarr, Hedy -- 1913-2000 Actresses -- United States -- Biography Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography Spread spectrum communications |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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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 inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals 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...
