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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.
Hedy Lamarr, U.S. patent 2,292,387 — with co-inventor George Antheil, frequency hopping spread spectrum radio for jam-proof remote control of torpedoes. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014. [3] Abraham Lincoln, [2] U.S. patent 6,469 — [method for] Buoying vessels over shoals. George Lucas [2]
This installation was at the Gallery from 12 March to 7 May 2006. It was installed in December 2007 at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, FL, and again at 3-Legged Dog in New York City, where it was used to accompany a play about Antheil and Hedy Lamarr, and their invention of spread-spectrum technology, called Frequency Hopping. [18]
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."
Austrian-American Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, together with musician and author George Antheil, developed a mechanism for radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. [80]
In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. [303] 1977: The Association for Women Geoscientists was founded. [304] 1977: Argentine-Canadian scientist Veronica Dahl became the first graduate at Université d'Aix-Marseille II (and one of the first women in the world) to earn a PhD in artificial intelligence. [305]
August 11 – Composer George Antheil and actress Hedy Lamarr are granted a United States patent [11] for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder to detect. [12] October 2 – The first American-built jet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter prototype, makes its first official ...
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