Paramètres
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
En savoir plus sur le livre
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.
Achat du livre
Hedys Folly, Richard Rhodes
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2012
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (souple)
Modes de paiement
Il manque plus que ton avis ici.
- Titre
- Hedys Folly
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Richard Rhodes
- Éditeur
- Random House USA Inc
- Publié
- 2012
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0307742954
- ISBN13
- 9780307742957
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Technologie & Ingénierie, Biographies, Autobiographies et mémoires, Science, Technologie, Biographies de femmes
- Évaluation
- 3,15 sur 5
- Description
- 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.