What Rush Limbuagh doesn't Know.....about Hedy Lamarr. Genius Inventor

Forbes Magazine ^ | May 14, 1990 | Fleming Meeks

[Fred25]

The eagle flies at midnight.

[theoutsideman]

She invented nothing. At best she had the abstract idea of frequency switching. Invention implies demonstrating a working prototype. Where is the prototype? Nowhere because she invented nothing.

[JCG]

Don't let's start threads on what Rush doesn't know -- you'll chew up all the bandwidth!

Nobody can know everything.  But I bet Rush knows more than you.

 America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here

[JCG]

Well, they still need to work out the kinks...his loss of hearing, as you know, came suddenly and unexpectedly. Really too bad. He was totally lost, at times today, when dealing with callers.

Rush is better when totally lost than most of the other talkers are reading from a script.  He was, and still is, the Beethoven of his craft.

 America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here

[JCG]

She invented nothing. At best she had the abstract idea of frequency switching. Invention implies demonstrating a working prototype. Where is the prototype? Nowhere because she invented nothing.

Then what did she get the patent for?  Dancing polkas at the USO?

 America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here

[Tribune7]

This silly thread has had me trying to think of other one-liners from that movie for the last hour. The only ones involve the N word.

Mongo punching the horse and the great bean scene can't count.

[Tribune7]

Ok, you're a babe too. (with added bonus of having deep knowledge of arcane guidance systems.)

[cgk]

I found this one, also.

No. 435: HEDY LAMARR, INVENTOR

I still believe she is the most beautiful of the screen sirens. Bump for a great post.

Mrs Kus

[philman_36]

The eagle flies at midnight.
Silly Fred, eagles aren't nocturnal. Bats and rats, however, are.

[Old Fud]

What Rush Limbuagh doesn't Know.....about Hedy Lamarr. Genius Inventor

Can't be so. Rush is all knowing. He says so.

[Fred25]

Silly Fred, eagles aren't nocturnal. Bats and rats, however, are.

That’s why it’s a classic code phrase. Anyway, “The rat flies at midnight” would sound silly.

[_Jim]

The system devised by Lamarr and Antheil known as frequency hopping is now in extensive use in military communications. (This article was published in 1991, before the current explosion of spread-spectrum use in digital communications and cell phones, C.B.)

CB?

I'm afraid this is absolutely incorrect. CB involves no 'frequency hopping' or spread spectrum aspect what so ever ...

The author of this piece is reaching a bit beyond his level of knowledge of radio in 'claiming' this ...

[philman_36]

C.B. looks like initials. Why don't you try reading that again and notice the punctuation!
Maybe that should have been erased before it was posted anywhere.

[philman_36]

(This article was published in 1991, before the current explosion of spread-spectrum use in digital communications and cell phones, C.B.)
You know...like an aside. Boy are you something else. Ever critical aren't you!

[philman_36]

It is a real shame. You can't find a damn thing wrong with the article, yet you manage to fabricate something wrong, just so you can bitch about something.

[K7TNW]

"A babe even if she is a brunette"

Second only to Susan Heyward! Va-Va-Voom

[prometheus]

Thanks for the story about Hedy and Metricom. I enjoyed it greatly.

[prometheus]

Thank you.

[prometheus]

She invented nothing.

Wrong...She had a patent made for her invention with a schematic that was the basis of technology used during WW2.

You can link to the patent from this link.

 

Hedy Kiesler Markley is Hedy Lamarr.

[prometheus]

The Patent begins, "This invention relates broadly to secret communications systems involving the use of carrier waves of different frequencies, and is especially useful in the remote control of dirigible craft, such as torpedoes."