Missile Crisis, Vietnam, The Gulf War, etc...
frequency hopping technology was routinely
used to establish a secure wireless and cellular
communication.
In 1990, her work was rediscovered by others
within the wireless communications industry and
who would later pay her tribute. In 1997, she
recieved the "Pioneer Award" from the
Electronic
Frontier
Foundation
for
her
contributions to spread spectrum technology, a
technique by whcih a signal is deliberatly spread
in the frequency domain to create a wider
bandwith signal.
HEDY LAMARR (born Hedwig Eva Maria
Kiesler 9 November 1913 – died 19 Januaray
2000) was an only child of Vienna-Austrian
parents Gertrud and Emil Kiesler. Gertrud was a
former pianist and Emil was a Jewish bank
manager.
In 1930 throughout 1940, she
became a renowned movie star at age 17 and
was featured within 30 different movies including
a comedy with Bob Hope called "My Favorite
Spy." In 1953, she became an American citizen
but many people do not know that she was also
a well-known inventor. Yes!
Her invention was the precuso r to several
wireless technologies that we use today. We
honor her in Medicine because without her
wireless invention we would not have medical
devices that use Global Position Satellites
(GPS), secure wireless radio, cell phone, and
Bluetooth technologies.
References:
1. Famous Women Inventiors. "Hedy Lamarr:
Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology."
Lamarr's idea of frequency hoping, a method of 2008. http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedytransmitting radio signals by rapidly switching Lammar.asp
carrier signals among many frequency channels
using a psuodorandom code sequence, was an
attempt to help the American Allied forces during Illustrations:
the war. A beautiful and highly intellegent
Hedy Lamarr. "Pinterest." Accessdate
woman in her time. Wouldn't you agree?
7/15/2015.
In December 1940, her and a co-inventor https://www.pinterest.com/deesign2/hedysubmitted the idea to the National Inventors lamarr/
Council. In 1941, they filed for and in 1942 was
awarded a patent for the"Secret Communication
System." Although, it was never used during
WWII in 1950, the Navy found the technology
very useful for detecting submarines using sonar
buoys that were remote-controlled from
airplanes.
In 1962, her invention as well as George Antheil
co-invention patent expired and the rights
became public domain, so neither party ever
profited from her patent. However, thoughout
many war campaigns to include The Cuban