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The woman who made your WiFi work.
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress. Max Reinhardt called her the “most beautiful woman in Europe” due to her “strikingly dark exotic looks”.
Mathematically talented, Lamarr came up with an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
Bad Brad
August 1st, 2012
That’s Headly. That Lady is stunning.
Hawaiian
August 1st, 2012
“That’s Hedley.”
Bad Brad
August 1st, 2012
Not what I had in mind.
Adrienne
August 1st, 2012
What a stunningly beautiful woman. God was in a good mood when he made her!
Bad Brad
August 1st, 2012
Ah shit. I guess I’m a typical male. Read the rest of it. That is amazing. I’ve never seen a superior brain wrapped in that pretty of a package. Most of the time they look not that good. I hope she had a happy life. But then I guess beauty is in the eye.
Chieftain
August 1st, 2012
Bad Brad
August 2nd, 2012
Thanks Chieftain, she’s an amazing story. Hopefully she recognized for other than the aesthetics.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 2nd, 2012
Heddy Lamarr puts all of the current crop of politically correct, libtard, brain-dead, knuckle-dragging, actresses of today to shame.
They’ll say they idolize her now but I’ll bet if they had to audition against her, they’d hate her guts.
Eric
August 2nd, 2012
Imagine, if you can, some Hollywood actress today such as Hedy…
LiLo?
As an opposing entry, may I suggest Barbara Peyton.
F.D.R. in Hell
August 2nd, 2012
In 1941, she tried to get my legs to work. Unsuccessful with the left and the right ones, but the middle one enjoyed it tremendously.
Cheeze-it…here comes Eleanor!
Anonymous
August 2nd, 2012
I think,no, I know I’m in love.
grayscape
August 2nd, 2012
Damn – women in those days were so hot…
Angrymike
August 2nd, 2012
Smart and beautiful, she was definitely a conservative ……..
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 2nd, 2012
Women were different then, but this one was in a class of her own.
reliapundit
August 2nd, 2012
MAKES MY WOODIE WORK!
muddjuice
August 2nd, 2012
A slight wandering eye can be so sexy…
Great, iOTW made my eye wander again today. My wife’s gonna sue your pants off Fur!!!
Maudie N Mandeville
August 2nd, 2012
Roseanne Barr rocks!
Alpha Maser
August 2nd, 2012
Technically, Wi-Fi in its various incarnations is *not* spread spectrum it;s wideband and it’s OFDM in newer versions g/n.
FDMA/FHSS and CDMA direct sequence SS are used by various 3G and other cellular standards though. Also, Heddy did it manually, i.e. her frequency hopping was not computer controlled so I don’t give her much credit for the “creation” of spread spectrum which uses a very fast hopping rate with matched filters. Not to put a bee in anyone’s bonnet though…
Troy
August 2nd, 2012
Wasn’t she the cover model for Corel Draw software back in the 90′s?
Purely beautiful.
Aunt Liz
August 2nd, 2012
@Troy – you are correct regarding the CorelDraw.
I love this story! I always though Hedy Lamar was one of the most beautiful women ever and love seeing her in old movies. She’s in a class all her own.