Beauty and Brains

Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, best remembered for Cecil B. DeMille’s epic “Samson and Delilah” in 1949, was also a talented mathematician and inventor. During World War II, she and composer George Antheil created a radio guidance system for torpedoes that skipped along random frequencies to reduce the threat of radar jamming by the enemy. This frequencyhopping shared spectrum technology ...

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