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Edit because link didn't work:
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/digital-identity-and-security/magazine/women-technology-hedy-lamarr-mother-wi-fi#:~:text=Hedy%20Lamarr's%20inventive%20mind%20developed,secret%20messages%20from%20being%20intercepted.
MyCatIsMissingAnEar
"The Only Women In The Room" is a pretty damn good historical fiction about Hedy
CaptSchmidtGaming
she would have led a more disappointing life by her own standards if she did not have the beauty. What she wished for was to be seen in her wholeness, not just her lavishness. and by the way isn't that what everybody wants.
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usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
"My brain's up here."
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
A couple important corrections. Frequency hopping isn't about sending secret messages, it's about avoiding interference. Also, GPS does NOT use frequency hopping. This is a common misconception. It uses a different technology which was invented separately.
Also, Lamarr and Antheil weren't actually the first ones to use frequency hopping, they designed a system to keep the frequency changes synchronized between a transmitter and receiver.
Spanky93
Nicola Tesla: First Time?
levyathyn
It was also a woman who solved the three-door problem on Let's Make a Deal, leading to the revolutionary understanding of the math behind always switching when the show gave you the chance. And like the discoveries of most other women in the past, this was discounted, argued against by myriad men, and when someone actually used the math to game the show, got Let's Make a Deal ended because of course she was right.
sombrerohorsewagon
She was dubbed?
DaisyfromDownunder
She's a long appreciated genius and beauty too.
bigk001
HEDLEY!
Exyr
It wasn't dismissed and it wasn't ignored...it was just well ahead of its time. I mean radar had just barely been invented.
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
The Germans were using frequency hopping in the First World War, it wasn't a new idea at all.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Correct. The system they had designed relied on clockwork and paper rolls to control the frequency hopping. It wasn't until transistors became available to use in place of the clockwork mechanisms that the technology started to see widespread use.
Someshithead241
Yeah, but that doesn't make as good of a story.
suiseiseki
Both Half Life 2 and Black Mesa pay homage to her! In HL2 a scientist has named a headcrab after her and in BM her portrait is in the scientist's office.
victalany
She was also the first actress to portray a female orgasm on screen. Very progressive for that time.
Jasani
Well... They DO say its in the eye of the beholder...
memedrift2410
Yup. Pretty terrible to be a genius AND beautiful. Of only people valued me for each of the amazing things about me, instead of just a few. Good thing it never happens that some people never get the chance at all to be seen as beautiful, otherwise that might seem kind of selfish and self centered ...
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
jerryusa25
Angry man
ItsHedley
I have been summoned
nsmike
De Monet! De Monet!
jerryusa25
Nice
KKVantas
Learned about Hedy Lemarr from Legends of Tomorrow
crookedamigo
Marry a mind flayer
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Hedley!
CalicoKittyAngel
And she's not the only one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9ggUjFrLk
As a woman myself, I am here to say 'Thank you' to all men AND women inventors of old. And also declare that men should never ever underestimate us. We are far more than beauty and baby makers. We also have brains. And this proves against the stereotypical stigma, just how well we know how to use them
ongabonga
She had foresight, switched countries at the right time, got to die at an old age of 85
somethingsomethingwittyhere
Well, her husband at the time was kinda of a prominent fascist (and arms manufacturer) and she was kinda Jewish, so...
suiseiseki
Thankfully she realized it was a toxic marriage relatively quickly and skedaddled. "I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own." - Hedy Lamarr
mycatsings
Interesting fact: The 1942 Warner Brothers film Casablanca was written specifically for Hedy Lamarr to play the female lead role. MGM however, refused to release Lamarr, so the role went to Ingrid Bergman.
RIxspacexCK
"Perfect" - from "The Fifth Element."
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HippoTel
MajorNikon
ItsHedley
I have been summoned
MajorNikon
Somebody’s gonna hafeta go back and get a shitload of dimes
AtsaMattaForMe
MajorNikon
lovehandlesmessiah
She did. Brooks settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
ElbowDeepInAHeadlessHorseman
CO-Invented. CO. She and George Antheil are credited with the invention together. Recognizing the successes of the pair as a team in no way diminishes her contribution, but writing as if it was her invention alone does diminish George's. You can still praise her ingenuity without writing him out of history.
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
Frequency hopping was invented and well-known decades before. Lamarr patented a way to implement it, but her method was never actually used.
noortobody
Yeah that's exactly the rub with these things. Not only do women's accomplishments get overlooked, but then when they get do get noticed, they also tend to be exaggerated and sensationalized, which isn't to anyone's benefit, and just leads to more confusion and skepticism.
khora
And Nikola Tesla made a patent on frequency hopping in 1907, though didn't use the phrase frequency hopping. The Soviets used frequency hopping in 2nd world war, cracked by the Nazis but not UK.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
True. For anyone wondering, Antheil was a friend of hers and a concert pianist. She got the idea from seeing how he used synchronized player pianos, and reasoned that a similar system could be used to synchronize radio control for torpedoes to make them harder for enemies to jam.
bigk001
noobody cares about his boobs. stop trying to censor the internet.
MajorNikon
You got any pics of his bobs…for science?
bigk001
Rest your sphincter!