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In before the Blazing Saddles references.
Nice if true but everybody’s trying to embellish any female they can find with a connection of tech into some idol responsible for singlehandedly pulling us into the new age these days for muh equalities, so take these stories with a grain of salt.
It’s not Hedy, It’s Headly, Headly Lamarr.
“By the start of World War II, they were two of the most accomplished talents in Hollywood. Leading lady Hedy Lamarr was known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” and composer George Antheil had earned a reputation as “the bad boy of music.” What brought them together in 1940 was that timeless urge to preserve one’s youth and enhance one’s natural beauty, but what emerged from their work was a secret communications system that Lamarr and Antheil hoped would defeat the Nazis.
It didn’t work out that way: The patent they received—No. 2292387—simply gathered dust in the U.S. Patent Office until it expired in 1959. But three years later, the U.S. military put their concept to use during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And ultimately, the two unlikely pioneers’ work on “frequency hopping” would be recognized as a precursor to the “spread-spectrum” wireless communications used in cellular phones, global positioning systems and Wi-Fi technology today.
She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1913, in Vienna; her father was a well-to-do Jewish banker and her mother was a concert pianist. Sent to finishing school in Switzerland, she grew into a strikingly beautiful teen and began making small German and Austrian films. ...”
She also appeared nude on film in a picture Hitler reportedly watch over and over again (Ecstasy - 1933). That film also depicted the first female orgasm in a movie.
“They don’t make many like her!”
Nope, one of the very few with both beauty and brains.
My Great Grandfather invented the road grader. He filed the patent in 1901 and it was granted in 1902. The patent number was: US714325 A.
The patent was infringed but he could not afford to defend it.
He died when I was around 7 and I remember him well. I always called him “Grandpa Bill:.
Hedy Lamarr made the first app that followed you around....
Funny how this came out shortly after ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ had her character in one of their shows and talked about how her achievements made some things we have today possible. Smart and talented. Sounds like she would have fit right in here at FR. :)
If I was a liberal, I’d become a conservative just for the jokes.
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. “ - Heady Lamarr
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, at the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.[2], but this claim is disputed by the fact that Lamarr in a interview in 1945 to the newspaper Stars and Stripes stated that it was her partner who did the “important chemical part.”
According to the newspaper, “Hedy modestly admitted she did only ‘creative work on the invention,’ while the composer and author, George Antheil, ‘did the really important chemical part.‘”[3]
The principle of frequency hopping was dealt with by Nikola Tesla.
Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.[4][5][6] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.[2][7]
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933) in which she is seen swimming and running in the nude, she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.[8]
Lamarr appeared in numerous popular feature films, including Algiers (1938), I Take This Woman (1940), Comrade X (1940), Come Live With Me (1941), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and Samson and Delilah (1949).[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
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Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she worked in her spare time on various hobbies and inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a carbonated drink. The beverage was unsuccessful; Lamarr herself said it tasted like Alka-Seltzer.[22]
Among the few who knew of Lamarr’s inventiveness was aviation tycoon Howard Hughes. Lamarr discussed her relationship with Hughes during an interview, saying that while they dated he actively supported her “tinkering” hobbies.[24] He put his team of science engineers at her disposal, saying they would do or make anything she asked for.[24]
On one occasion, Hughes was trying to modify his aircraft designs to make planes fly faster. He asked her for ideas; “He relied on me,” she said. Lamarr began studying the aerodynamics of birds and the shapes of fish, afterward presenting him with sketched ideas to make wings on planes less square and more efficient. “[I] showed it to Howard Hughes and he said, ‘You’re a genius.’”[24]
During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, which could be important in the naval war, could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course.[25] With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed.
She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals.[23] They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.[26][27] Antheil recalled:
We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons ... and that she was thinking seriously of quitting M.G.M. and going to Washington, D.C., to offer her services to the newly established Inventors’ Council.[15]
Their invention was granted a patent on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey).[28] However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.[22] Only in 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis) did an updated version of their design appear on Navy ships.[29]
In 1997, they received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.[30] Lamarr was featured on the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel.[11] In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[31]