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...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer ...
What began as an interesting and speculative problem for physicists grew into the Manhattan Project and then into the race to build the first atomic weapon. Richard Rhodes traces the development of the bomb through to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
What began as an interesting and speculative problem for physicists grew into the Manhattan Project and then into the race to build the first atomic w...
This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age, now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new writings from Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, and a new foreword by Cynthia C. Kelly.
This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of t...
