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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... read more
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People edit
- Hedy Lamarr: Austrian-American movie star in the 1940's. A beautiful, intelligent woman who invented as a hobby.
- George Antheil: Avant-garde composer.
- Boski Antheil: Add a description of this character.
- Fritz Mandl
- William Bullitt
- Stravinsky
- Henry
- Mary Louise Bok
- Walter
- Lawrence Langner
- Howard Hughes
- Peter Antheil
- George Weller
- Louise Bryant
- M. H. Hanson
- Scholtz
- Louis B. Mayer
- Frederick Kiesler
- Max Reinhardt
- Denise Loder
- Emile
- Hirtenberger
- Midgley
- Arnold Gingrich
- Bill
- Tony Martin
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Lou Eshman
- Lincoln Steffens
- Harry Hopkins
- Adolf Hitler
- James Joyce
- Donald Friede
- Remarque
- Satie
- Emil Kiesler
- Ben Hecht
- Michael J. Marcus
- Alexander Korda
- Sigmund Freud
- Olga Rudge
- Alfred E. Kahn
- Darius Milhaud
- Trude Kiesler
- Samuel Stuart Mackeown
- Ezra Pound
- Margaret Mayer
- Gene Markey
- Diaghilev
- Dudley Murphy
- Gilbert Adrian
- Thomas Edison
- Anthony John Loder
- Fernand Léger
- Mussolini
- Charles D. Ferris
- Bombonetti
- Aaron Copland
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Loder
- Amarena
- Claude Shannon
- Janet Gaynor
- Woodrow Wilson
- Peter Lorre
- Constantin von Sternberg
- Sylvia Beach
- Marcel L'Herbier
- John Reed
- Vladimir Golschmann
- Zweig
- Romuald Ireneus Scibor-Marchocki
- Picasso
- Man Ray
- George Balanchine
Organizations edit
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: A film studio based in California.
First Sentence edit
She was Viennese, not yet seventeen in the spring of 1931 but already a professional actress, in rehearsal for a play.
Table of Contents edit
INTRODUCTION Hedy Lamarr, Inventor
ONE A Charming Austrian Girl
TWO Bad Boy of Music
THREE Mechanisms
FOUR Between Times
FIVE Leaving Fritz
SIX Cinemogling
SEVEN Frequency Hopping
EIGHT Flashes of Genius
NINE Red-Hot Apparatus
TEN O Pioneers!
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Illustrations
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of December (2011). (authoritative list)
This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Rhodes (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385534383
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385534383
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 509
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