[MindBender26]

Old news

Paul Harvey did this repeatedly over they ears.

Hedy is dead.

Died a few years ago in Altamonte Springs, near Orlando, Florida.

She was arrested for shoplifting in Altamonte Springs a few years before that. She pleaded guilty.

[boomop1]

I was amazed the great one didn't know this, Ditto's..

Bump

[mdwakeup]

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

[truthkeeper]

I heard the guy mention this on Rush's show today. Rush got a big kick out of this, so I hope he sees this post.
Heck, I'll send it to him. :-)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[fishtank]

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[NavyCaptain]

Who cares! This is nice-to-know, but impacts nothing of importance!

[Slyfox]

Even though I had heard about this, this article really contains much more information. Thanks for posting it.

[ruoflaw]

I did read about it some time ago but you supplied alot better information. She was really beautiful and she was genius... Even if she has died...she deserves to be recognized.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

WOW

[Randjuke]

That's Hedley!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Among her real-world contributions to our high-tech life is spread-spectrum technology as used in (the late, highly lamented) Metricom's Ricochet wireless modems.

Alas, Metricom's business model called for billions of infrastructure investment, requiring regular injections of hundreds of millions of dollars. Funding of that sort dried up utterly this past year, and Metricom folded early this summer after attempting to accelerate its marketing efforts unsuccessfully. Tragic: its ISDN-speed, rock-solid wireless service was fabulous, one of the best and most reliable technologies I've ever used.

Interesting tidbit: Metricom's bankruptcy trustees were asked to re-activate the system in NYC to facilitate post-9/11 communications. They did, and it runs like a song.

A few years ago, shortly before her death, Metricom hosted the elderly Ms. Lamarr at a ceremony here in the Bay Area. It received some press... she had some spicy things to say and was clearly spittin' and kickin' clear to the end.

[xm177e2]

Did you scan this article in? I see things like the word "fumed" where "turned" would make more sense and "reamed" instead of "learned"...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Let me share this with you as well

Hedy Lamarr........Star of Silver Screen and Inventor

[nancetc]

The article notes her first husband as a tycoon...it doesn't note that he developed weaponry for Hitler. That she was so anti-nazi that she left him after 4 yrs to go to London...but from that 4 yrs she learned enough to develop the early spread spectrum (frequency-hopping) technology to keep our torpedoes from being interfered with by jamming.

The military didn't think we had the technology to produce such a device it was shelved. The patent became public domain where in the 1950's it was picked up by the US Navy that did some work with it...as has others. Because the patent became public Ms. Lamarr didn't receive any monies for her invention.

[backhoe]

Thank you for posting this- I did know about it, but details have faded with time, & it's nice to be reminded.

[philman_36]

Speaking of spread spectrum...
You know!

[Anthem]

Bump for an interesting article. My Hedy Lamarr shrine is right next to my Marilyn Vos Savant shrine. I've even got a book that says beautiful brainy brunettes created the universe (Ok, I wrote it, but hey, it's true so far as my universe goes).

Good to see your thoughts on the forum again.

[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.