Recent Books
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Rob's latest books are now available from Amazon
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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? 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 Hedy and George. It tells the fascinating story of radio and the ongoing battle to make it secure and of similar quality to wired communication. Spread spectrum emerges from that battle to become the solution of choice for anything from mobile phones to wireless computer networks... More details |
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to the Amazon UK website where this book can be purchased.![]() Click here for a Press Release about the Hedy Lamarr book For USA and/or or dollar sales click here. |
| Gripping stories of ghosts in the
historical and beautiful University city of Oxford... More details To buy this book via Amazon simply click the cover opposite. Available through many Oxford outlets including the Tourist Advice Centre, Broad Street. |
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For current work see below. In the past Rob Walters has written a number of technical books
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Rob is now busily diversifying - you can see what he is working on nowadays below.
Here is a list of current projects - click to find out more. Mail us if you want to read more
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