WTF happened to all the great female actress inventors?
(We were watching Jeopardy when this crazy question come up - what famous actress invented the technology used in cell phones? Hedy Lamarr invented "frequency hopping" which is used all over the place now, from phones to Wi-Fi.)
From the site:
"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.
Wow. This is a real mindf***er. What--did she have a lab in her house? Why was she thinking about all this? Whatever--it's a great chunk of trivia.
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