Hedy Lamarr: (Actress and Secret Inventor)
Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the "Golden Age" of Hollywood during the 30's and early 40's. She was debuted the title of "the most beautiful woman" in Hollywood. Although she was given this "Bombshell" outlook there was more to her than her appearance, her mind was beautiful as well she had a secret hobby of inventing that was overlooked in her time by both the Navy and the fame valuing "looks rather than intelligence" Her persistence in her early invention of "Frequency Hopping" in spectrum communications is what would led to the current inventions of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies. Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She developed the passion for "tinkering" from her father in his interests of "machinery" and the intricacy of how things worked. Her father would take her on walks and discuss the printing press or street cars. This embodied her intuition towards an inventive mindset
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