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Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world / Richard Rhodes.

Rhodes, Richard, (Author).
  • Description: ix, 261 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday,
  • ISBN: 9780385534383 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0385534388 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780385534390 (ebk.)
  • ISBN: 0385534396 (ebk.)

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Beverly Main Adult Nonfiction PN 2287 .L24 B54 2011 (Text to phone) Available -
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Marblehead Adult Biography BIO LAMARR, HEDY 2011 (Text to phone) Available -
Melrose Biographies (Main Floor) Biography 791.43 Lamarr Rhodes (Text to phone) Available -
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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!
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.

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Subject: Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.
Actresses > United States > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Spread spectrum communications.

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