She's also much easier to look at than Tesla.
She's also much easier to look at than Tesla.
Yep I agree on that!The old timers had an eye for woman.
Yup. Who says pretty girls can’t be Ubergeeks? Hedy certainly was.
It was an idea for frequency hopping that Heddy helped come up with. A sort of mechanical disc contraption that worked kinda like the rotating platter in a wind up music box.
Electrical contact would vary according to what pins made contact through holes in the plate as it moved. I suppose the contacts changed inductance or capacitance to effect an automatic change of frequency.
A really great idea, but the problem of synchronization between two setups was what kept it from being practical at the time.
Also, the idea was not useful to get through jamming equipment as the jammers of the day could cover a wide spectrum easily.
Changing frequencies in an attempt to limit a listeners ability to intercept your communications was used in WW1...but it was a poor attempt to do it manually according to a pre arranged pattern. It just befuddled the listener for a short while...just long enough for them to note all the frequencies and have multiple receivers going.
The art of electronic communications and how to encrypt data traffic and also send false data to the enemy first came about in the 1860’s as civil war telegraphers strung many hundreds of miles of enameled wire through the woods and used keys and sounders to communicate. Often the enemy was tapped in and listening so they used simple codes and sent plenty of false traffic. Some of the telegraphers were just boys...some as young as 12.
That Headly!
