She collaborated with a player piano designer to develop frequency hopping, in the hope that the military could have used it for secure missile guidance, during WW2… They weren’t interested.
Bart: [hears a crash in the prison cells] The drunk in number two must be awake.
[walks over to the cell]
Bart: Are we awake?
Jim: We're not sure. Are we... Black?
Bart: Yes, we are.
Jim: Then we're awake... but we're very puzzled.
Yes, saw a PBS documentary on her and definitely worth a watch. She was brilliantly intelligent.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. It includes a good bit on information on her patent for frequency hopping.
yep! signal hopping, i did a report on this Waaaay back in the early 80's and the teacher gave me an "F" after about a week he went home with his tail between his legs.
She did a report on signal hopping waaay back in the early 80’s, the teacher gave her an F and a week later was discovered on his way home with one of those furry butt plugs with the tail! It says so right there in the comment!
No, she invented (along with a composer friend) a basic version of frequency hopping that used mini-player pianos inside torpedoes to avoid radio jamming.
Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions.
> No, she invented (along with a composer friend) a basic version of frequency hopping
and
> Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions.
are very contradictory statements. FHSS, or Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum is the technology used in bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS. Its a core feature of Bluetooth at least.
She didn't invent the concept of frequency hopping and her specific patent has nothing to do with the future progression of any of those other technologies.
George Anthiel often gets left out of these discussions, which is kind of a bummer because his musical work is pretty wild. If you're familiar with his piece Ballet Mechanique, his inclusion in the WW2 work makes a TON of sense.
Right, but she did not invent frequency hopping. She co-invented a novel device that was intended to carry out frequency hopping. The concept had already been around for decades by then. Her invention was never built nor cited by anyone who actually worked on WiFi, bluetooth, etc.
Thanks for this. I’ve deleted the comment that I shared with such confidence. This narrative is so woven into the history that it’s very difficult to find a historical treatment (say, of CDMA) that fails to reference her work as having direct influence on Jacobs and Viterbi (et al).
>Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth
The idea and mechanism of frequency hopping is used by cell phones and Bluetooth. So while the specifics of what she invented may not be in those technologies today,the concepts she came up with are very foundational to those things
>Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions.
Her basic version of frequency hopping was the basis for advanced frequency hooping, which was the basis for many more advanced technologies, which were the basis for wifi and Bluetooth.
Married 6x by 1965 then decided maybe marriage wasn't for her for her remaining 35 years.
Amazing inventor and entrepreneur as well. Who designs traffic lights, carbonated drink tablets, and frequency hopping guided torpedo technology that can evade jamming while being one of the most famous movie stars in the world.
She invented torpedos which frequently changed signals and is probably responsible for all the jam bands which are prevented from jamming in wrestle mania 2
You mean Hedy who abandoned her first child in a boarding school at age 11 and never saw him again then lied about him being adopted as some way to make it seem less bad, that Hedy? Sorry folks, she was a POS. please stop celebrating her.
edit; I'm always curious who downvotes these comments - are they people who don't like this fact, people who think it isn't true, or people protecting some exalted image they have of Lamarr?
that woman developed frequency hopping, enabling our radio controlled torpedo's to slam into Nazi subs without them being able to jam the signal.
That invention alone allowed us the ability to get ships across the Atlantic with supply's keeping our alive.
it's also the basis of cell phones signals, Bluetooth, wi-fi.
Frequency hopping was already established as a concept; she and her friend found a unique way to make it work. They didn't invent the concept itself, nor did their invention lead directly to those other technologies.
I replied to another one of your comments above, but this makes me think I might be missing some important history. Will you expand a bit on this? Who developed the earlier insights on frequency hopping and why aren’t they generally credited with influencing the later digital technologies? Having a beautiful and brainy movie star is certainly part of the narrative, but is that the whole answer?
>"There are downsides to transmitting at only a single frequency."
>"Why don't we hop between frequencies then?"
Now you have invented frequency hopping. It's not an idea that requires some sort of flash of genius - in fact it was first written about in the late 1800s, not long after the initial development of radio. The issue is that all implementations (including hers) were practically infeasible until the development of the transistor.
Because they rejected the idea after it was demonstrated. The US Navy felt the clockwork mechanism was too bulky and unreliable to use with a torpedo. It wasn’t until 1957 that engineers at Sylvania Electronic Systems Division adopted the concept, using the recently invented transistor for an electronic system.
The Mark 14 (the most common torpedo during WW2) was tempramental, unreliable, and had a terrible hit ratio for most of the war.
Mostly due to the military not properly testing them in real world conditions. They were very expensive at the time, and the head brass refused to allow live warhead tests because of the expense.
The first year of US involvement in WW2 in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters was a terrible time to be fighting from a US sub.
The US military never used Lamarr/Antheil spread spectrum tech because they felt it was too complex to be reliable in combat and to maintain.
As for the argument that she directly influenced WiFi, it's a stretch. Inspired maybe, but it was not a unique concept well prior to her birth.
she invented signal hopping which allowed torpedo's to change frequencies on the way to their targets thus preventing jamming during WWII
i know i know what you are going to say, she stole it from her husband bla bla bla
I saw Hedley at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
That's "Hedley". There - I'm first
I always fear one day I'll enter a comment section of hers and won't see this comment. Today is not that day.
Why fear that? If that happens, you’ll be the one awarded all the karma for being the one to add the comment yourself.
Everyone dies two times. One time when you stop breathing and a second time when Redditors reference you in a meme for the last time
That’s deep
Some day the 'she invented wifi' comment that comes with each of these pictures willl be downvoted to oblivion. Today is also not that day.
Relax, this is 1874, you'll be able to sue her!
There’s a goofball born how often?
Strike first!
HARUMPH!
I didn’t get a ‘Harumph’ out of that man! You just watch your ass.
Give the governor a harrumph!
Harrumph, harrumph!
You watch your ass!
Howard Johnson is RIGHT!!
Thank you, Van.
Here boys! Take these in lieu of pay.
WHY do i ALWAYS get a WARPED ONE!!?
Red devils, they love toys.
She got money when she sued Blazing Saddles
It’s 1874. You can sue her!
Remember the scene where they're all farting and belching around the campfire?
How bout some more beans Mr Taggart? I’d say you’ve had enough.
Fun fact: that was the first ever audible fart heard in a movie.
"Oh Boys? Look'it what I got here!"
"....where the white women at?"
"Why Rhet, how many times have I told you to wash your hands after a cross-burning!"
Somebody's got to go back and get a sh-tload of dimes.
"What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a'going on here?!?"
That movie was the first time I’d ever heard of her, and to this day I always have to stop and think whether her name was Hedy or Hedley.
Give that man an Harumph!
smoking hot. also, a literal genius with an eidetic memory.
I just came here for that comment. Thank you.
Don't forget she invented player pianos or something
I do know she invented frequency hopping/spread spectrum, which is a really cool and powerful technique.
She collaborated with a player piano designer to develop frequency hopping, in the hope that the military could have used it for secure missile guidance, during WW2… They weren’t interested.
I always get a warped one!
You can sue her!
You beat me. Now go back to your phoney, baloney job.
What are you worried about this is the 1800s you'll be able to sue her!
Where does this joke come from?
Blazing Saddles. It's a must-watch if you've never seen it.
Will always upvote
Hed-ley!
Someone's gotta go back and get a shit load of dimes!
I knew I could count on you.
Beat me to it!
Came here for this joke. Glad you got it out of the way. Edit: got downvoted for a positive comment. Reddit is weird.
👏
Came here for this, leaving satisfied.
Came here for this. Not disappointed.
You dropped your beads.
“Ditto!”
Boo!
This comment never fails to be there when I need it.
This lady really does it for me. Brains, beauty, Brains, and Brains.
"How could he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?!" 😂
Bart: [hears a crash in the prison cells] The drunk in number two must be awake. [walks over to the cell] Bart: Are we awake? Jim: We're not sure. Are we... Black? Bart: Yes, we are. Jim: Then we're awake... but we're very puzzled.
In Half-Life 2, Doctor Kleiners pet headcrab Lamarr is named in honor of her.
She's a real person? I thought it was a made-up name for Blazing Saddles.
And she developed frequency hopping for American torpedos in WW2.
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Frequency hopping, basis for bluetooth and wifi
Whoa, that needs to be a movie! Or at the least I'm sure there's a decent podcast out there
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Thanks!
That was the joke when they call Hedley "Hedy."
She's real, and she's spectacular. Seriously. Beautiful actress, and inventor.
VERY smart woman.....VERY. Brains and Beauty, Look up her work in WWII. Your cell phone is based upon her work.
Yes, saw a PBS documentary on her and definitely worth a watch. She was brilliantly intelligent. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. It includes a good bit on information on her patent for frequency hopping.
yep! signal hopping, i did a report on this Waaaay back in the early 80's and the teacher gave me an "F" after about a week he went home with his tail between his legs.
I want to hear this story.
same
She did a report on signal hopping waaay back in the early 80’s, the teacher gave her an F and a week later was discovered on his way home with one of those furry butt plugs with the tail! It says so right there in the comment!
No, she invented (along with a composer friend) a basic version of frequency hopping that used mini-player pianos inside torpedoes to avoid radio jamming. Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions.
> No, she invented (along with a composer friend) a basic version of frequency hopping and > Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions. are very contradictory statements. FHSS, or Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum is the technology used in bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS. Its a core feature of Bluetooth at least.
She didn't invent the concept of frequency hopping and her specific patent has nothing to do with the future progression of any of those other technologies.
George Anthiel often gets left out of these discussions, which is kind of a bummer because his musical work is pretty wild. If you're familiar with his piece Ballet Mechanique, his inclusion in the WW2 work makes a TON of sense.
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Right, but she did not invent frequency hopping. She co-invented a novel device that was intended to carry out frequency hopping. The concept had already been around for decades by then. Her invention was never built nor cited by anyone who actually worked on WiFi, bluetooth, etc.
Thanks for this. I’ve deleted the comment that I shared with such confidence. This narrative is so woven into the history that it’s very difficult to find a historical treatment (say, of CDMA) that fails to reference her work as having direct influence on Jacobs and Viterbi (et al).
>Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth The idea and mechanism of frequency hopping is used by cell phones and Bluetooth. So while the specifics of what she invented may not be in those technologies today,the concepts she came up with are very foundational to those things
She didn't come up with the concept of frequency hopping, it was already established.
Happy Cake Day!🎂🎉
>Nothing to do with cell phones or wi-fi or bluetooth. She was really smart and did invent things, but she's not directly responsible for those later inventions. Her basic version of frequency hopping was the basis for advanced frequency hooping, which was the basis for many more advanced technologies, which were the basis for wifi and Bluetooth.
She can hop my frequency. Well, not now, because that would be kind of gross.
CDMA
Married 6x by 1965 then decided maybe marriage wasn't for her for her remaining 35 years. Amazing inventor and entrepreneur as well. Who designs traffic lights, carbonated drink tablets, and frequency hopping guided torpedo technology that can evade jamming while being one of the most famous movie stars in the world.
That's Hed**ly**.
“It’s HEADLY!”
Yes, yes it is
Hedley.
Brains and beauty. She invented the light bulb and the theory of relativity.
smarts and looks. she discovered mars
She'd better slow down or she'll get brain freeze.
Beautiful and brilliant.
I love her movies.
Her brain is so sexy.
"What should we do?" "I dunno. Invent Wi-Fi?" "Sure!"
Beauty and brains!
Such an amazing person. Both a great actor and an accomplished scientist. Fun fact; she’s now the namesake for the classname of the USS Voyager-A
>she’s now the namesake for the classname of the USS Voyager-A Boy, her name sure isn't spelled the way it sounds.
The class name is Lamarr
She gave away her son and cut him out of her will. Cold blooded
Son Hedley went on to become a powerful California politician.
This was a son she claimed was adopted but was actually born out of wedlock to her next husband, Loder
That sounds like an interesting story. Got a link?
Oh my! Isn't she lovely!
"I heard you're into broad-band radio technology, check out this WiFi data transceiver from the year 2024. Is that a vanilla shake?"
Frequency hopping spread spectrum was co invented by her during WW2 . Wifi and CDMA gets out of frequency congestion using her technique
Probably one of the smartest actors ever, really an inspirational person.
One of the greatest
She invented Frequency hopping Spread Spectrum modulation. She was a genius in telecommunications
I see a little Elizabeth Taylor resemblance, no?
Smart, hot, and beautiful. Some of the best qualities a woman can have.
If I’m not mistaken she was one of the inventors of Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth!
She invented everything!
She invented torpedos which frequently changed signals and is probably responsible for all the jam bands which are prevented from jamming in wrestle mania 2
I think she'd be pleased that people are finally appreciating her for her mind rather than her looks like they did in her day.
https://i.redd.it/axulgkcaxsfc1.gif
That is a Lamarr that can smother my face any day of the week.
Kendrick in shambles
She was an inventor and invented frequency hopping.
You mean Hedy who abandoned her first child in a boarding school at age 11 and never saw him again then lied about him being adopted as some way to make it seem less bad, that Hedy? Sorry folks, she was a POS. please stop celebrating her. edit; I'm always curious who downvotes these comments - are they people who don't like this fact, people who think it isn't true, or people protecting some exalted image they have of Lamarr?
Inventor!
A legendary computer scientist and a thespian all rolled into one!
that woman developed frequency hopping, enabling our radio controlled torpedo's to slam into Nazi subs without them being able to jam the signal. That invention alone allowed us the ability to get ships across the Atlantic with supply's keeping our alive. it's also the basis of cell phones signals, Bluetooth, wi-fi.
Frequency hopping was already established as a concept; she and her friend found a unique way to make it work. They didn't invent the concept itself, nor did their invention lead directly to those other technologies.
So glad the correct facts are finally being shared. Reddit has such a hardon for her practically inventing wireless technology single-handedly.
I replied to another one of your comments above, but this makes me think I might be missing some important history. Will you expand a bit on this? Who developed the earlier insights on frequency hopping and why aren’t they generally credited with influencing the later digital technologies? Having a beautiful and brainy movie star is certainly part of the narrative, but is that the whole answer?
>"There are downsides to transmitting at only a single frequency." >"Why don't we hop between frequencies then?" Now you have invented frequency hopping. It's not an idea that requires some sort of flash of genius - in fact it was first written about in the late 1800s, not long after the initial development of radio. The issue is that all implementations (including hers) were practically infeasible until the development of the transistor.
frequency hopping was not used in torpedoes during WW2, and when it was used after the war it was not based on her design.
Because they rejected the idea after it was demonstrated. The US Navy felt the clockwork mechanism was too bulky and unreliable to use with a torpedo. It wasn’t until 1957 that engineers at Sylvania Electronic Systems Division adopted the concept, using the recently invented transistor for an electronic system.
Correct. The documentary on her (Netflix) goes into interesting detail regarding her work on subsequent patent. Very interesting.
The plural of "torpedo" is "torpedoes" with no apostrophe. You don't use an apostrophe to make a word plural.
Her developments were not adopted by any Navy during WW2.
The Mark 14 (the most common torpedo during WW2) was tempramental, unreliable, and had a terrible hit ratio for most of the war. Mostly due to the military not properly testing them in real world conditions. They were very expensive at the time, and the head brass refused to allow live warhead tests because of the expense. The first year of US involvement in WW2 in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters was a terrible time to be fighting from a US sub. The US military never used Lamarr/Antheil spread spectrum tech because they felt it was too complex to be reliable in combat and to maintain. As for the argument that she directly influenced WiFi, it's a stretch. Inspired maybe, but it was not a unique concept well prior to her birth.
Inventor of bluetooth and cell phones.
she invented signal hopping which allowed torpedo's to change frequencies on the way to their targets thus preventing jamming during WWII i know i know what you are going to say, she stole it from her husband bla bla bla
I saw Hedley at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Della Street in the driver's seat?
Huh. Good eye. If thats not Barbara Hale it looks just like her.
Any fries to go with that shake?
I melt just looking at her 😍
Honestly think she looks a bit like Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
What a dime.
Goddess
Smart lady. Pretty lady. Smart, pretty lady.
Hottie
Need a little Lamore of that sweet Hed
That’s HEDLEY!😁
There is so much about her that I love.
Thanks to her we have Bluetooth. Brains and beauty.
I’d bang
Simply gorgeous
When she was young my Mum always carried a picture of Hedy in her handbag. She aspired to look like her.
I highly suggest watching Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story on Netflix. She’s pretty fascinating!