Hedy Lamarr (1914 - 2000)
Austrian-born American actor and avid inventor;
1940s Hollywood bombshell beauty and movie star at MGM Studio;
in World War II, a pioneer of frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology,
(a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes designed
to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis);
posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
It’s fascinating how I never heard of this until recent years. What an accomplished woman.
ReplyDeleteShe was more intelligent than she let on. If someone would have seen her as a scientist instead of an actress, can you imagine what she could have accomplished?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know
ReplyDeleteSuccessful women are terrifying to weak men. But, look at her! She thrived in the shallowest and deepest ponds!
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