{"product_id":"hedys-folly","title":"Hedy's Folly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hedy's Folly (Hardcover, 288 pages – Vintage, 2012) – Vintage, 2012. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulitzer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Rhodes - undifferentiated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52368471097626,"sku":"9780307742957","price":112.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/81H71wggmBL._SY522.jpg?v=1781750161","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/hedys-folly","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}