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Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.
Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna in 1914, was an actress and inventor. In 1937, Lamarr escaped her controlling husband and Austria and moved around Europe before crossing over to the United States.
Hedy Lamarr: 1914 Frequency-hopping spread spectrum [499] 2014 Howard Aiken: 1900 Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) [500] 2014 Mildred Dresselhaus: 1930 Lattice structure [501] 2014 Otis Boykin: 1920 Electrical resistor [502] 2014 Richard DiMarchi: 1952 Insulin Lispro [503] 2014 Willis Whitfield: 1919 Clean room [504 ...
Hedy Lamarr, who would've turned 101 on Nov. 9, started out as an actress in Vienna, Austria. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (referred to onscreen as simply Bombshell) is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed, written and co-edited by Alexandra Dean, about the life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. It had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival [2] and released theatrically on November 24, 2017. [3]
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman is the alleged tell-all style autobiography of Austrian-born actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, ghostwritten by Leo Guild and Cy Rice and first published in 1966. The book spent four weeks at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1966. [1]
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) [2] ... In 2013 an inventor in the United States unveiled a "spider-sense" bodysuit, ...