Hedys Folly [Audiobook] download free by Richard Rhodes
- Listen audiobook: Hedys Folly
- Author: Richard Rhodes
- Release date: 2012/10/15
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780307742957
- Rating: 8.75 of 10
- Votes: 463
- Review by: Ricky Bray
- Review rating: 7.16 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/4
- Duration: 3H29M24S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, FLAC, MPEG-4 ALS, MP3, Vorbis, MPEG4, WMA (compression ISO, ZIP, XZ, Z, TAR.Z, RAR, LZ)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M11S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a 'secret communication system.' Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood's golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Individual Actors & Performers, Biography: General, Films, Cinema, Biography: Arts & Entertainment
- Download servers: Torrent, Nextcloud, FileServe, Dropbox, Hotfile, Hightail. Compressed in ISO, ZIP, XZ, Z, TAR.Z, RAR, LZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.44 USD
- Dimensions: 132x203x13.97mm
- Weight: 272.16g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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