Friday, 8 November 2013

Hedy Lemarr, 100 years on

Unusual gifts of beauty and intellect in one.


Hedy Lamarr, born 9 November 1913

Mathematically talented, with composer George Antheil, Hedy Lamarr
invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications
and frequency hopping necessary for wireless communication
from the pre-computer age to the present day, WiFi..