A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes sets out to rewrite America’s memory of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, who was known in her time as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world.’ Little did the world know that, in the 1940s, Lamarr, in an attempt to help the war effort, actually invented what
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes sets out to rewrite America’s memory of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, who was known in her time as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world.’ Little did the world know that, in the 1940s, Lamarr, in an attempt to help the war effort, actually invented what would become the precursor to many wireless technologies we use today, including Bluetooth, GPS, cell phone networks, and more.
NPR, 11/27/2011
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