Austrian American actress Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) is an unlikely person to have revolutionized the world of technology! She started as a successful Hollywood actress, eventually got bored and developed a communications system to guide missiles for the Allies in WWII. However, the methods she developed weren’t technologically feasible during the 1940’s. It wasn’t until the 60’s that technology caught up to her ideas and led the way to cell phones, Bluetooth and Wifi technology.
Google created a Doodle to honor Lamarr’s contributions to technology…
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December 2nd, 2015 at 4:57 pm
I love your site MamaLisa, and made reference to it this morning in a post on my site, in a post titled ‘Origin of Moses Supposes rhyme’.
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Thank you Gradmama!