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Various Inventions
- Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr's life story is far more interesting
than any of her movies. She was known as one of the most beautiful
women to ever appear in films.
- Her acting began in Austrian and Czech film in 1930.
- Trapped in a marriage with a controlling,
older man (who was selling munitions to Adolf Hitler), she drugged
her maid/guard and hopped a train to London. She eventually ended
up in the United States, in Hollywood.
- But she wasn't just an actress. She was a great inventor.
- She was a social butterfly in Hollywood and met a composer
named George Antheil at a party. She was sitting on his piano
when the concept for the torpedo
guidance system came to her.
- Lamarr's frequency-hopping idea is the basis for modern communication technology used
in devices ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi Internet
connections.
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