I was just pointing out that we replied simultaneously, to the second, with the Blazing Saddles reference. Perhaps you're not familiar with the term 'deadheat'.
Posted on 11/26/2017 6:29:47 PM PST by ETL
Pretty incredible that our post times were identical to the second.
PS- "deadheat, "post time". You may be able to figure out from my word usage that I have an interest in horse racing! :)
My Great Grandfather invented the road grader. He filed the patent in 1901 and it was granted in 1902. The patent number was: US714325 A.
The patent was infringed but he could not afford to defend it.
He died when I was around 7 and I remember him well. I always called him “Grandpa Bill:.
Hedy Lamarr made the first app that followed you around....
Funny how this came out shortly after ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ had her character in one of their shows and talked about how her achievements made some things we have today possible. Smart and talented. Sounds like she would have fit right in here at FR. :)
After purchasing the company in 1928, Caterpillar went on to truly integrate the tractor and grader into one design—at the same time replacing crawler tracks with wheels to yield the first rubber-tire self-propelled grader, the Caterpillar Auto Patrol, released in 1931.[3]"
If I was a liberal, I’d become a conservative just for the jokes.
That’s HEDLEY, you twat!
“There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is composed almost entirely of ordinary matter, as opposed to an equal mixture of matter and antimatter.
This asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the great unsolved problems in physics.[2]”
Oops! Sorry. Intended post 28 for this other thread that I posted.
Excess antielectrons aren’t from nearby dead stars, study says
ScienceNews.com ^ | November 16, 2017 | Emily Conover
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3608157/posts
I’ll take your clueless post with a grain of salt.
Lots of people watched it.
What jokes?
You must be very proud of yourself.
Nice if true but everybody’s trying to embellish any female they can find with a connection of tech into some idol responsible for singlehandedly pulling us into the new age these days for muh equalities, so take these stories with a grain of salt.
You’re full of it.
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. “ - Heady Lamarr
I was just pointing out that we replied simultaneously, to the second, with the Blazing Saddles reference. Perhaps you're not familiar with the term 'deadheat'.
Perhaps you are familiar with the term,
diverting something significant into mindless crap.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, at the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.[2], but this claim is disputed by the fact that Lamarr in a interview in 1945 to the newspaper Stars and Stripes stated that it was her partner who did the “important chemical part.”
According to the newspaper, “Hedy modestly admitted she did only ‘creative work on the invention,’ while the composer and author, George Antheil, ‘did the really important chemical part.‘”[3]
The principle of frequency hopping was dealt with by Nikola Tesla.
Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.[4][5][6] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.[2][7]
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933) in which she is seen swimming and running in the nude, she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.[8]
Lamarr appeared in numerous popular feature films, including Algiers (1938), I Take This Woman (1940), Comrade X (1940), Come Live With Me (1941), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and Samson and Delilah (1949).[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
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Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she worked in her spare time on various hobbies and inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a carbonated drink. The beverage was unsuccessful; Lamarr herself said it tasted like Alka-Seltzer.[22]
Among the few who knew of Lamarr’s inventiveness was aviation tycoon Howard Hughes. Lamarr discussed her relationship with Hughes during an interview, saying that while they dated he actively supported her “tinkering” hobbies.[24] He put his team of science engineers at her disposal, saying they would do or make anything she asked for.[24]
On one occasion, Hughes was trying to modify his aircraft designs to make planes fly faster. He asked her for ideas; “He relied on me,” she said. Lamarr began studying the aerodynamics of birds and the shapes of fish, afterward presenting him with sketched ideas to make wings on planes less square and more efficient. “[I] showed it to Howard Hughes and he said, ‘You’re a genius.’”[24]
During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, which could be important in the naval war, could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course.[25] With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, she thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed.
She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals.[23] They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.[26][27] Antheil recalled:
We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons ... and that she was thinking seriously of quitting M.G.M. and going to Washington, D.C., to offer her services to the newly established Inventors’ Council.[15]
Their invention was granted a patent on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey).[28] However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.[22] Only in 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis) did an updated version of their design appear on Navy ships.[29]
In 1997, they received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.[30] Lamarr was featured on the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel.[11] In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[31]
What the hell is your problem? You always so friggin grumpy? Maybe you need to go to the bathroom.
OK, sorry, I misunderstood.
I injected the Blazing Saddle reference because I knew it was going to enter in regardless.
In any case, one can still learn and discuss things while having some fun along the way. Some of the best teachers frequently use humor.
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