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Happy 100th birthday, Hedy Lamarr, movie star who paved way for Wi-Fi
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| 9 November 2014
| Steven Musil
Posted on 11/10/2014 11:21:03 AM PST by ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce
She created CDMA, but gave it away, and so Qualcomm didn’t have to pay her royalties.
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posted on
11/10/2014 12:47:27 PM PST
by
Defiant
(GOP needs to be the party of no to socialism, yes to freedom.)
To: lee martell
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posted on
11/10/2014 12:48:13 PM PST
by
Defiant
(GOP needs to be the party of no to socialism, yes to freedom.)
To: ShadowAce
Harnessing the torpedo knowledge she acquired from the meetings she attended with her former husband, Lamarr began collaborating with Antheil on frequency hopping... I love a good story just like anyone else, but Antheil was an actual inventor, and Hedy got information from other scientists and engineers from meetings she had no real cause to be in in the first place - which she then gave to Antheil. What was that information? How in-depth was it? After she gave it to Antheil, how much did he extend it?
Yes, she COLLABORATED with Antheil, and so she was on the patent. But it sounds like actual scientists, engineers, inventors and businessmen developed most of this technology. To claim she "invented" it is going a bit far. She neither developed the root ideas nor their expression on her own, and there's no listing of her personal insights in the matter.
Sorry for the reality check, but Hollywood is Hollywood, and you don't get more Hollywood than Hedy Lamarr.
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11/10/2014 12:50:35 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: ShadowAce; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day
To prevent remote-controlled torpedoes from being hijacked, she helped develop an early version of spread spectrum communication, which is part of the basis for wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Yeah, like the starlets of today stand a chance of doing something similar.
To: martin_fierro
"Why did you do that?"
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posted on
11/10/2014 1:12:13 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: Prospero
well this is an interesting thread — GAAAAAHHHH!
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posted on
11/10/2014 1:19:22 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Izzy Dunne
Indeed, they skipped a couple of steps:
“He returned to the US in 1933 to compose for film, and also became a syndicated romance advice columnist, writer for Esquire, and author of a book entitled, Every Man His Own Detective: A Study of Glandular Endocrinology.
“Legend has it that Lamarr approached him for endocrinological advice on increasing her breast size, but the two soon began chatting about weapons, particularly radio controlled torpedoes and how to protect them from jamming or interference.”
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/01/09/hop-skip-and-a-jump-remembering-hedy-lamar/
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posted on
11/10/2014 1:26:17 PM PST
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jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jiggyboy
dag nabbit I should have saved that for #24
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posted on
11/10/2014 1:28:06 PM PST
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jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/10/2014 2:10:22 PM PST
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SunTzuWu
To: SunTzuWu
Ditto, you provincial putz?!?
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posted on
11/10/2014 2:12:40 PM PST
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dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
11/10/2014 5:34:59 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
To: martin_fierro; dfwgator
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posted on
11/11/2014 4:57:14 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: ShadowAce
Awesome lady. Beautiful and smart.
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posted on
11/11/2014 6:51:38 AM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: zeugma
Yep—pretty rare combination these days.
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posted on
11/11/2014 6:59:44 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: martin_fierro
Wretched. When I see that photo, I don't really think of torpedoes.
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