Google will co-produce a miniseries about the actress Hedy Lamarr , who invented the technology that served as the basis for wireless networks such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.The miniseries, based on the book «Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World », will be starring actress Diane Kruger, who will also participate in the production of this audiovisual piece that will pay tribute to this revolutionary woman.
glamorous wifi
"It's easy to be glamorous.The only thing you have to do is stay still and look stupid." This phrase was pronounced by Hedy Lamar, precisely one of the most glamorous stars of classic Hollywood to which, in addition to his presence in the screen, we owe the technology that gave way to the wireless communication devices (GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) .Its name was "spectrum spread by frequency hopping", and it was a system of secret communication whose design served to build radio-controlled torpedoes that could not be detected by enemies, using jumps between 88 frequencies.
Lamarr, who started acting in his native Austria, connected breakout in American cinema in the 30s and 40s, starring in films with some of the great stars of the moment such as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner or Victor Mature.His career as an actress precipitated a sad decline in the fifties and sixties.However, beyond his activity on the screen, in recent years he has recovered his activity as an inventor.
RelatedLamarr married for the first time when he was 18, with a rich Austrian manufacturer of ammunition linked to Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy.Thanks to this marriage, Lamarr was able to meet scientists who worked for the army and that aroused in her research curiosity.
hedy lamarr against the Nazis
World War XX arrived and the Nazi regime was advancing triumphantly for Europe.Hedy Lamarr, who had resumed her studies becoming, in addition to a famous actress, a telecommunications engineer, wanted to help in the fight against Hitler.
He offered his collaboration to the US government for the development of scientific research in search of arms advances, but the cooperation they expected from it was quite different: take advantage of its fame and beauty to help in the sale of war bonds and become an image of propaganda posters. He who bought twenty-five thousand dollars would get a kiss from the actress; Lamarr managed to sell seven million dollars in war bonds in a single night.
However, Hedy Lamarr was much more than the icon of glamor and beauty of the time.It was in the same environment, in Hollywood where, in 1941, he met at a party the musician and composer George Antheil. The two invented their "Secret Communications System".
The idea, which was not used, was to remote control torpedoes-which at that time did not have that advance-to get them to impact enemy targets and thus help the Allied victory.They obtained the patent on 11 August 1942, and gave it free to the United States Army, which did not put it into practice.Still, he decided to keep it secret and develop several research programs on the idea of Lamarr.
orgasms and inventions
Hedy Lamarr, who rose to fame for performing the first nude and showing the first orgasm in the history of cinema in the Czechoslovak movie 'Ecstasy', 1933, was also pioneer of "lifting" -in his words, "accordion-based skin stretching system-, work on a tablet to dissolve in water and get an instant cola, and devise a fluorescent collar for dogs.
The research contribution of Hedy Lamarr was recognized in 2014, the year in which he was nominated, post-title, at the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
"I am fascinated by Hedy Lamarr," Kruger said in a statement published by Hollywood Reporter."She was an intelligent, resourceful woman, visionary inventor, well ahead of her time, who also turned out to be an important movie star.that this story will serve to keep his legacy alive and inspire others, "I explain Diane Kruger, protagonist of the American remake of «The Bridge».Hedy Lamarr has been another of the women whose contributions to the development of technology have been undervalued for years.
Sources: Hollywood Reporter and Telephone Foundation.
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