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Thread ID: 123663	2012-03-09 15:07:00	Hedy Lamarr: Movie Star --- Inventor Of WiFi	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1264000	2012-03-09 15:07:00	Yeah --- I didn't believe it either . After all wasn't it some politician who somewhat recently said he invented the internet? LINK::: . cbsnews . com/8301-3445_162-57390196/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-inventor-of-wifi/?tag=pop;stories" target="_blank">www . cbsnews . com ibid: It was Hedy's idea for a secret communications system - specifically one that could guide a torpedo using a technology called "frequency hopping" - so that signal couldn't be intercepted . "The first question always is, "What? A Hollywood star? What was she doing inventing some piece of electrical engineering?" said Rhodes . Her life reads like a Hollywood script: The glamorous movie star by day was, by night, the lonely immigrant channeling an inner Thomas Edison . "She set aside one room in her home, had a drafting table installed with the proper lighting, and the proper tools - had a whole wall in the room of engineering reference books . " That, Rhodes said, was where she "invented . " Her idea for a radio-controlled torpedo, guided by a signal that couldn't be intercepted - a technology she called "frequency hopping" - that was a precursor for the technology that decades later made GPS, cell phones and WiFi possible . . i . com . com/cnwk . 1d/i/tim/2012/02/29/Lamarr_HeavenlyBodyb . jpg" target="_blank">i . i . com . com Interesting to read the whole article .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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