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To: Maceman

Pretty much everything except the windshield wiper (Karl Benz’s daughter Mercedes) and frequency-hopping (cell-phone radio strategy) [Hedy Lamarr].


4 posted on 01/24/2015 11:14:58 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W

That’s HEDLEY!


11 posted on 01/24/2015 11:19:17 AM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Don W
I JUST read that a few months ago ... amazing.

Y'mean they ALL weren't mindless, beautiful twits ?

12 posted on 01/24/2015 11:19:58 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: Don W
Yes, I love the fact that this

and, of course this

is the inventor of frequency-hopping (originally intended to prevent enemy take-over of remote-control torpedoes, now used in cell-phones).

18 posted on 01/24/2015 11:27:48 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Don W

Missed one:

Tabitha Babbitt (1779–about 1853) was an early American and Shaker tool maker and inventor, including inventions for the Circular saw, Spinning wheel head ...

Just for the record. :)


19 posted on 01/24/2015 11:29:45 AM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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