What a weird story.
The review goes into much greater detail and is worth following the link and reading the entire article.
Sexiest woman to trample her footprint into the Earth.
What a weird story.
“THAT’S HEDLEY!!!”
(Sorry...it had to be said....:-)
Never heard of her until my Father-in-Law died and my Husband received a trunk with an autographed picture of her.
She was a beautiful women. Classic beauty, unlike the stars that we have now.
The first, written in the late 80's, was The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
The second was written after the fall of the Soviet Union, when the author had access to Russian archives and the surviving Russian physicists. It carried the history of Nuke development through the early hydrogen bombs. It was titled Dark Sun.
The story of Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil is one that most wireless engineers and geeks know by heart. Had Hedy Lamarr not met George Antheil, we would not have had spread spectrum until just before the Cuban Missile crisis.
As it is, she never received a dime for her invention and the Navy had no clue what to do with it!
Beauty and brains and a talented actress. Sadly, she died penniless and alone in central Florida about 10 years ago.
She deserved better. Thank you, Hedy. Your contribution to science and engineering has provide a LOT of work for a LOT of people!!
Nice the author finally got around to mentioning her patented invention of spread spectrum communications - a stunning accomplishment.
Shop regularly at a Publix supermarket that they caught Hedy shoplifting at. Disfigured by bad plastic surgery later in life and became virtually a recluse, so I hear. So sad.
A friend of mine works for a major manufacturer of electronics/telecommunications devices. She said that even today they use some of the ideas of Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil..
All the women mentioned were beautiful, but don’t forget Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Debra Kerr, Ann Baxter etc. Betty Grable was a looker and on Posters in many young soldier’s lockers during WWII. During the 1940’s and early ‘50s most of the famous Movie stars were stand outs—both Women and Men! The Men were so Handsome and masculine. The Women were very beautiful ; each of them were very different. Now so many of both sexes seem to look too much alike.