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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, 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.
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 ...
Radia Joy Perlman (/ ˈ r eɪ d i ə /; [1] born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet.
Hedy Lamarr invented frequency hopping—a technology that could have provided a significant advantage to the United States military in the war—but the Navy shelved her idea and told her to sell war bonds instead. By selling war bonds, she engaged in something deemed more appropriate for a woman, especially a glamorous actress."
This page aims to list inventions and discoveries in which women played a major role. Objects List Object 1 - "Almond Water" Object 2 - “Level Keys” (Trimmed; Open for Rewrite) Object 3 - "Smiler Repellent" In revision, please wait for this file to update Object 4 - "Deuclidators" Object 5 - "Candy" Object 6 - "The Mirror" Object 7 - "Memory Jar" Object 8 - "Lamps" Object 9 - "Dumb Gum ...