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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]
In 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received U.S. patent 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System", [9] [10] an early version of frequency hopping using a piano-roll to switch among 88 frequencies to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. They then donated the patent to the U.S. Navy. [11]
Hedy Lamarr, who would've turned 101 on Nov. 9, started out as an actress in Vienna, Austria.
During World War II, Golden Age of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed an intended jamming-resistant radio guidance system for use in Allied torpedoes, patenting the device under U.S. patent 2,292,387 "Secret Communications System" on August 11, 1942. Their approach was unique in that frequency ...
Hedy Lamarr and co-inventor, George Antheil, worked on a frequency hopping method to help the Navy control torpedoes remotely. [62] The Navy passed on their idea, but Lamarr and Antheil received a patent for the work on August 11, 1942. [62]
Shafi Goldwasser, a theoretical computer scientist, is a two-time recipient of the Gödel Prize for research on complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory, and the invention of zero-knowledge proofs. [106] Barbara Liskov together with Jeannette Wing, developed the Liskov substitution principle. Liskov was also the winner of ...
Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets invented in 1991 for securing Internet applications (World Wide Web, email, etc.) Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria and U.S. – Spread spectrum radio; Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera; Samuel P. Langley (1834–1906), U.S. – bolometer