Saed News: Hedy Lamarr was known as the most beautiful woman in world cinema during the 1930s. She was Austrian, and interestingly, this actress was also an inventor — Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were developed based on her invention.
According to the Saed News analytical news outlet, Hedy Lamarr (German: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) (born November 9, 1914 – died January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-American actress and inventor.
After a brief acting career in Germany — which included a role in the film Ecstasy (1933), known for its controversial love scene — she secretly moved to Paris.
While in Paris, she met Louis B. Mayer, the then-head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood, where she became a cinema star from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Lamarr starred in many films, including Algiers (1938), I Take This Woman (1940), Comrade X (1940), Come Live with Me (1941), and Samson and Delilah (1949). Director Max Reinhardt called her “the most beautiful woman in all of Europe,” a remark widely echoed by both audiences and critics.
At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr sought to help the Allied forces. She viewed Axis radio jamming as a serious issue and, together with composer George Antheil, invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication technology as a way to overcome this problem.
However, the U.S. Navy did not begin using the technology until the 1960s. Today, the core concept of her invention is used in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and CDMA technologies.
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