Posted on 11/12/2017 5:08:19 AM PST by DFG
The remarkable life of the Hollywood siren who pioneered groundbreaking scientific inventions that paved the way for wifi and Bluetooth will be told in a new film. Hedy Lamarr, considered by her show business peers to be the most beautiful woman in the world during the 1940s and 50s, starred alongside the likes of Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Clark Gable during her glittering acting career. But she was also a brilliant scientist who helped devise a frequency-hopping system which eventually formed the foundation for modern technologies such as wifi, GPS and Bluetooth.
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THAT'S HEDLEY!
There are FReepers who claim women never contributed to science or anything worthwhile.
Susan Sarandon-produced documentary? I’ll pass.
Hedley Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Know the difference.
Blazing Saddles was the first thing I thought of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#/media/File:Lamarr_patent.png
Work work work..Hello Boys!
Governor Lepetomane: What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You’ll be able to sue *her*.
Poor Hedy. Can’t have a thread about her without all the Blazing Saddles references.
LOL!
The giggling clueless never realize how clueless they are.
And Socrates was a turtle on a little kids TV show.
Pathetic.
My Great Aunt was the first female to
graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School. 1922
She was on the White House Committee on Suffrage. 1920
I’d dare anyone to say women in my family
never contributed to anything...
/thread highjack
You’re on the leftside of the culture wars as you lean towards a cultural liberal and you’re on FR??
I agree. The agenda of radical lefties like Sarandon distorts everything they think and do. Failure to conform to the orthodoxy is not an option.
That girl was hotter than a $2 pistol.
You are funny...
Conservative with some Libertarian mixed in
LOTs of people on FreeRepublic like us
She’s always looked a lot like Vivien Leigh to me.
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