Hedy Lamarr |
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), an Austrian-born American film star, was often called “the most beautiful woman in the world.” She also had a lifelong interest in technology and invention. During World War II she conceived of a radio-frequency-hopping device to control torpedoes and patented it with a male colleague. The U.S. Navy adopted her breakthrough wireless technology in the 1960s, and it later became a basis of GPS, Bluetooth, and early versions of Wi-Fi. In 2014 Lamarr was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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