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32
“An invention is the result”: Quoted in Berle and De Camp (1937), 4.

33
“An invention is not complete”: Quoted in ibid.

34
“The invention is not the specimen”: Ibid., 197.

35
“It seems that Hedy”: George Antheil draft text, 11–12. Antheil Papers.

EIGHT: FLASHES OF GENIUS

  1
“We are, at this instant”: Antheil to Bullitt, 16 Oct. 1940, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, William C. Bullitt Papers, Yale University Library.

  2
“split-second”: “Idea for a Radio-Controlled Torpedo,” 2, 23 Dec. 1940, document in possession of Anthony Loder, Los Angeles.

  3
“In the meantime”: Antheil to Lamarr, 10 Jan. 1941, Antheil Papers.

  4
Oslo Report: See Frithjof Sterrenburg,
The Oslo Report 1939—Nazi Secret Weapons Forfeited
.

  5
“was to handle”: Antheil to Lamarr, 10 Jan. 1941, box 2, folder 7, George Antheil Papers, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  6
“I found it necessary”: Ibid.

  7
“is a queer girl”: Antheil to Bullitt, 20 May 1941, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, Bullitt Papers.

  8
“Idea for a Radio-Controlled Torpedo”: Document dated 23 Dec. 1940, in possession of Anthony Loder, Los Angeles.

  9
“made blueprints”: Antheil to Bullitt, 20 May 1941.

10
“One of the imperative”: Scott (1920), 286–87.

11
October 1915: Ibid., 13.

12
“mentally inbred”: Quoted in McBride (1992), 7.

13
more than 110,000 ideas and inventions: Ibid., 12.

14
only one actually went into production: Scott (1920), 125.

15
testing pilots for airsickness: National Inventors Council (1943), 387.

16
“Several others”: Scott (1920), 124.

17
“had more impact”: Quoted in Michael Bess, review of
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by
J. R. McNeill,
Journal of Political Ecology
9 (2002).

18
“Inventors often lost”: National Inventors Council (1943).

19
“And now we’ve received”: Antheil to Bullitt, 20 May 1941.

20
“Hedy is incredibly”: Ibid.

21
“deeply interested”: Antheil to Bullitt, n.d. (“Thanks for your very kind note of February 22 [1942].…”), MS 112, box 3, folder 44, Bullitt Papers.

22
“became her trademark”: Barton (2010), 102.

23
she briefed him: Ibid., 103.

24
legally changed her name: Ibid., 108.

25
“Langner seems to be”: Antheil to Bullitt, 30 June 1941, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, Bullitt Papers.

NINE: RED-HOT APPARATUS

  1
“We are, at present”: George Antheil et al., “Idea for a Radio-Controlled Torpedo,” 23 Dec. 1940, document in possession of Anthony Loder, Los Angeles.

  2
“two sister system[s]”: document in possession of Anthony Loder, Los Angeles.

  3
“(a) The ribbon wavelength”: Ibid.

  4
“It’s my daily work”: Antheil to Bullitt, 24 June 1942, MS 112, box 3, folder 44, William C. Bullitt Papers, Yale University Library.

  5
“Hedy was once married”: Antheil to Bullitt, 20 May 1941, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, Bullitt Papers.

  6
“novel torpedo”: Ibid.

  7
“It is of course”: Markey and Antheil (1941), 12–13.

  8
“Recent communications”: Antheil to Bullitt, 30 June 1941, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, Bullitt Papers.

  9
illness ran into the layoff: Shearer (2010), 130–31.

10
“Hedy was here Sunday”: Antheil to Bullitt, 19 July 1941, MS 112, box 3, folder 42, Bullitt Papers.

11
“At that time”: Boski Antheil memoir, 93–94, box 17, folders 1–3, Antheil Collection.

12
“Hollywood is a funny”: Ibid.

13
“Let’s move away”: Antheil (1945), 335.

14
“We moved to a tiny”: Boski Antheil memoir, 94.

15
“We got the smallest”: Antheil (1945), 336.

16
“It was from my dead”: Ibid.

17
“I have just finished”: Antheil to Bullitt, 19 July 1941.

18
“HEDY LAMARR INVENTOR”:
New York Times
, 1 Oct. 1941.

19
“actually reached”: Antheil to Bullitt, 13 July 1942, MS 112, box 3, folder 44, Bullitt Papers.

20
“The Ambassador said”: U.S. Department of State (1943), 136.

21
“When that big bomb”: Mullener (2002), 31.

22
“U.S. submariners began”: Wildenberg and Polmar (2010), 102.

23
These and other problems: See Gannon (1996), Newpower (2006), and Lockwood (1951).

24
“After considering our torpedo”: Antheil to Bullitt, 5 Feb. 1942 (misdated 1941), MS 112, box 3, folder 44, Bullitt Papers.

25
“Hedy and I spent”: Antheil to Bullitt, 13 July 1942.

26
“unquestionably dealt”: Kennan, introduction to Bullitt (1972), xii.

27
“I am sorry”: Bullitt to Antheil, 25 Aug. 1942, box 28, folder 16, Antheil Collection.

28
“during the anxious days”: Antheil to Bullitt, 23 May 1943, MS 112, box 3, folder 44, Bullitt Papers.

29
“rebirth”: Quoted in Whitesitt (1983), 57.

30
news analyst: Ibid., 58.

31
“chip in and help”: “Hedy Lamarr Sells $4,547,000 Bonds,”
New York Times
, 2 Sept. 1942.

32
“NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 4”: “Hedy Lamarr a Hit in Newark,”
New York Times
, 5 Sept. 1942.

TEN: O PIONEERS!

  1
denied its identifying information: “It is only this year (1997) that the connection has been pointed out by Dave Hughes.” Scibor-Marchocki (2003), “Sonobuoy.”

  2
“When we received”: Ibid.

  3
“As requested”: Ibid.

  4
“In retrospect”: Ibid.

  5
“worked very well”: Ibid.

  6
“solves each”: Ibid.

  7
“spread spectrum”: Scholtz (1982), 832.

  8
paper published in 1982: Ibid.

  9
told me he was aware: Robert Scholtz, personal communication, 28 April 2011.

10
follow-up paper: Price (1983).

11
“Although the radio link”: Scholtz (1982), 829.

12
seminal paper: Shannon (1948).

13
“Shannon’s formula”: Walters (2005), 165.

14
coined the term “bit”: Shannon (1948), 379.

15
“evidently carried”: Scholtz (1982), 833.

16
different secret communication systems: Ibid., 845–47.

17
“scores of patents”: Ibid., 835.

18
“For the first time”: Scibor-Marchocki (2003), “Surveillance Drone.”

19
top four most performed: Whitesitt (1983), 62.

20
“It is a wonderful”: Quoted in ibid.

21
“There is everything”: Quoted in ibid.

22
“became a shuttle trip”: Lamarr (1966), 129.

23
Traumas emerged: Ibid., 128–30.

24
“time and analysis” … “the crisp, competitive”: Ibid., 131.

25
“It was the case”: Ibid., 137.

26
“My judgment on scripts”: Ibid., 166.

27
“We argued quite a bit”: Quoted in ibid., 181.

28
$30 million or more from acting: Ibid., 312.

29
Spread Spectrum Systems:
Dixon (1984).

30
“first comprehensive”: Mike Marcus, “Early Civil Spread Spectrum History,”
http://www.marcus-spectrum.com/SSHistory.htm
, 1.

31
“anachronistic technical regulations”: Marcus (2009), 19.

32
“In the 1970
S”:
Ibid., 20–21.

33
study the FCC commissioned: Scales (1980).

34
“Spread spectrum techniques”: Ibid., 1–3.

35
“It became clear”: Marcus (2009), 24.

36
“the spread spectrum Pandora’s box”: Ibid.

37
not so easily persuaded: This discussion follows ibid., 26.

38
“Legend has it”: Ibid., 25.

39
“The rules adopted”: Ibid., 33.

40
A study done for Microsoft: Perspective Associates (UK) (2009),
Economic Value of Unlicensed Spectrum
.
http://www.marcus-spectrum.com/SSHistory.htm
.

41
“I can’t understand”: Meeks (1990), 2, 4.

42
“Few people were ever”: Osborne (2000).

43
“I wasn’t worried”: Dave Hughes interview with author, Colorado Springs, 23 Sept. 2010. All Dave Hughes quotations from this source.

AFTERWORD

  1
“Some time ago”: Boski Antheil, “Past Present,” box 17, folders 1–3, Antheil Collection, Library of Congress.

  2
“To neutralize Mandl”: Newton (1986), 544.

  3
“Hedy’s fondness”: Barton (2010), 227.

  4
“living a very private”: Carter (2009), 116.

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