Hedy Lamarr, Brilliant Inventor Of Spread Spectrum Frequency Hopping

This is my salute to my flickr friend, Stephanie Comfort...

 

Hedy Lamarr's patent was only twenty years ahead of the US Navy. This is a mainstay of current mobile phone communication systems.

Read Hedy's patent here: www.google.com/patents/US2292387

 

Hedy Lamarr invented Spread Sprectrum Frequency Hopping to make a radio frequency control signal for submarines signal very difficult to jam. These techniques are part of every modern communication system. Apple's Bluetooth, is a possible example...

 

Hedy's role was unrecognized for many years!

 

Photo from: www.flickr.com/photos/retrogasm/sets/72157634601889083/

 

Everything I have searched for was triggered by Stephanie Comfort's photo of a Vargas print of Hedy Lamarr www.flickr.com/photos/9679871@N04/11015949356/ in Stephanie's fabulous, painstakingly assembled set on American Jews:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/9679871@N04/sets/72157601810201377/...

 

Read Hedy's patent here: www.google.com/patents/US2292387

 

Here is NPR's feature on Hedy Lamarr:

 

www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142664182/most-beautiful-woman-by-...

Done