Posted on 11/13/2015 10:42:10 AM PST by SkyPilot
Fascinating woman. Fascinating story. She really was the co-inventor of Frequency Hopping, which makes today's WiFi, Blue Tooth, GPS, and so many other things possible.
If you missed the Google Doodle on her a few days ago, you can view it here:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/entertainment/hedy-lamarr-google-doodle-feat/
It HEDLEY!
LOL - it only took two posts..
She was making wartime weapons? Interesting.
Beat me by 40 seconds...
What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You’ll be able to sue her!.
She was very beautiful, too.
She was friends with Ann Bancroft (Mel's wife), so I doubt she was malicious about it.
Another look at her invention.
I always heard she invented stuff and had a stratospheric IQ
Yes. She was known for her torpedoes.
[rim shot!]
Don't you realize this man is a Ni..?
But you had the cool graphic to tie it all together for the people who don’t know the true classics! I defer to you good sir!
Her autobiography, “Ecstasy and Me” was good read. Pretty racy.
B4l8r
Haha, good one.
She was indeed a fine specimen of a woman as far as I can see by her picture. I have no idea how she thought politically or if she had a relationship with Jesus.
Her first husband was a wealthy Austrian arms manufacturer, who hung out with Hitler and Mussolini.
She even said in her autobiography that she had had Hitler over to her home for a dinner party. She was pretty smart, and over all the dinner table conversation she learned a great deal about weapons technology.
She understood that the main problem with submarine torpedoes at the time was they could be jammed at frequency. So she and a musician came up with the idea to frequency hop using a device based on a player piano.
Hitler was supposedly obsessed with her. He had a copy of her 1933 movie "Ecstasy" and he played it over 100 times. Don't know if anyone has ever seen the movie, but it was shocking for the time. She is naked in part of it, and it was the first movie to depict a woman in orgasm. And she was really naked in the film, not implied naked.
No wonder Hitler watched it so many times.
She escaped Austria and made it to the US, and became a famous actress of course. But she also raised millions in War Bonds - $7,000,000 in just one night - another record.
“She was friends with Ann Bancroft (Mel’s wife),”
Anne “are you trying to suduce me Mrs. Robinson” Bancroft?
I didn’t know that!
I always heard she invented stuff and had a stratospheric IQ
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