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01785aam a2200385 i 4500 001 CA5D9C1EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 120827t20122011||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0307742954 020 $a 9780307742957 020 $a 0385534396 020 $a 9780385534390 020 $a 0385534388 020 $a 9780385534383 035 $a (OCoLC)808382026 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Rhodes, Richard. 245 1 $a Hedy's folly : $b the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world / $c Richard Rhodes. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition, July 2012. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2012. 300 $a ix, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 $a 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!. 520 $a 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. 541 $d 20221122. 600 1 $a Lamarr, Hedy, $d 1913-2000. 650 $a Actresses $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z United States $x Biography. 650 $a Spread spectrum communications. 650 $a Science. 650 $a Scientists. 941 $a 1 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20230302023356.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA5D9C1EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search