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Spread Spectrum: Hedy Lamarr and the Mobile Phone

Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood star and the first woman to appear naked on film. George Antheil was a piano player and composer. So just how did these two come to invent the latest technology used by the mobile phone? Or did they? She was labelled "the most beautiful girl in the world" and he "the bad boy of music" yet way back in 1942 they took out a patent covering the vital radio technique that we now call spread spectrum.

This absorbing book traces the eventful and sometimes scandalous lives of Lamarr and Antheil. It tells the fascinating story of radio and the ongoing battle to make it secure and of similar quality to wired communication. Spread spectrum emerged from that battle to become the solution of choice for anything from mobile phones to wireless computer networks.

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Product Details

Recommended Age Adults
Author Rob Walters
ISBN 1419621297
Publication Date Jan 19, 2006
Publisher BookSurge Publishing
Language English