Beautiful Invention
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Richard Rhodes’s caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent....
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Like a 1930s People Magazine
- By Home Hunter 808 on 12-24-15
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-29-11
- Language: English
- What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signal....
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Jump!
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Daniel Engber
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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It was early February 1912, and Franz Reichelt, a Paris tailor, and Rodman Law, a self-described “professional jackass” from New York, were poised, respectively, on the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, ready to deploy an experimental parachute. In bat wings and bundled linen, they were almost certain their contraptions would work. Here is the tale of their inspirations and their pluck - and what happened next.
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Enjoyable short
- By Rellim on 09-29-20
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Jump!
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-28-19
- Language: English
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In the first few years of the 20th century, inventors discovered how to soar into the sky. This breathtaking true story is about two men who, on one fateful weekend, tried to show the world a way back down.
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The Diamond Formula
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Alina Simone
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A possible genius, a smidgen of madness, a twist of science, and an invention that very nearly changed the world - all collide in a giddy, unbelievably true mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris.
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Swines and pearls
- By Commoncent$ on 05-31-19
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The Diamond Formula
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-28-19
- Language: English
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A possible genius, a smidgen of madness, a twist of science, and an invention that very nearly changed the world - all collide in a giddy, unbelievably true mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris....
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
- Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
- By: Daniel Stashower
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."
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To whom it may concern
- By P'an on 04-12-24
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
- Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime....
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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Alex Mar
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 59 mins
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The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative.
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Disappointing
- By Bruce Cline on 01-11-22
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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 03-28-19
- Language: English
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The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative....
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