George Johann Carl Antheil (/ ˈ æ n t aɪ l /; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the United States in the 1930s, …

Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly changing the carrier frequency among many distinct frequencies occupying a large spectral band.The changes are controlled by a code known to both transmitter and receiver.FHSS is used to avoid interference, to prevent eavesdropping, and to enable code-division multiple …

The Fighting Kentuckian is a 1949 American Adventure Western film written and directed by George Waggner and starring John Wayne, who also produced the film.The supporting cast featured Vera Ralston; Philip Dorn; Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy) portraying Wayne's portly sidekick; Marie Windsor; John Howard; Hugo Haas; Grant Withers and Odette Myrtil

Olga Rudge (April 13, 1895 – March 15, 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary.. A gifted concert violinist of international repute, her considerable talents and reputation were eventually eclipsed by those of her lover, in whose shade she appeared content to remain.

Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (/ ˈ h ɛ f ər / HEF-ər); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.. Ford is now remembered for his novels The …

Sylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's book, Ulysses (1922), and …

Hedy Lamarr (eigentlich Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; * 9.November 1914 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; † 19. Jänner 2000 in Altamonte Springs, Florida) war eine österreichisch-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin und Erfinderin.. Nach Beginn ihrer Filmkarriere in Österreich wurde sie ab Ende der 1930er Jahre zum Hollywood-Star. Für ihre Erfindung, eine Funkfernsteuerung für …

During World War II, Golden Age of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed an intended jamming-resistant radio guidance system for use in Allied torpedoes, patenting the device under U.S. Patent 2,292,387 "Secret Communications System" on August 11, 1942. Their approach was unique in that frequency ...

The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial.It was published in book form in December 1922.

Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: / ˈ s ɜːr ɑː,-ə / SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: / s ʊ ˈ r ɑː / suu-RAH, French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.. Seurat's artistic personality combined ...