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In LaMarr's patent (assuming it could ever work), the hopping sequence is pre-arranged. Chblim 04:37, 23 December 2023 (UTC) Here is an excellent article written by a female engineer, dismantling the myth around Lamarr's supposed connection with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellphones
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 ...
Hedy Lamarr, best known for her film work in the '30s and '40s but also a noted inventor, was the first to develop hCG, astonishing the scientific community with her groundbreaking work. Unfortunately she did not have the foresight to patent her invention, and lived to see General Dynamics appropriate the technology for its own use.
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 ...
In 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received U.S. patent 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System", [9] [10] an early version of frequency hopping using a piano-roll to switch among 88 frequencies to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.
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]
The Strange Woman is a 1946 American historical melodrama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis Hayward. It is based on the 1941 novel of the same title by Ben Ames Williams. The screenplay was written by Ulmer and Hunt Stromberg. Originally released by United Artists, the film is now in the public ...