Introduction

Introduction

Not a Fan Letter

by Hedy Lamarr | December 15, 2018 | FEATURED, Introduction | 0 Comments

Dear Hedy Lamarr, This is not a fan letter. At least, not in the Hollywood sense. Like too many things in your life, it arrives in an untimely fashion. A Woman, Interrupted—by a dictatorial husband, the Hollywood image machine, and ghostwriters, among...

A Woman Interrupted – Introduction

by Hedy Lamarr | January 24, 2019 | Introduction | 0 Comments

The Press Kit Generator that transmits elements of your story to the general public often just repeats the tale of the brainy starlet who was unrecognized until now as the inventor of spread spectrum communication. It is a smooth, linear narrative that can provide a...

88 Frequencies/Hard to Intercept

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

Any enemy attempting to jam the radio signals would have to decode what pattern among the eighty-eight possible frequencies was guiding the torpedo—an impossible task.

A spy who had already carried out your mission

by Hedy Lamarr | December 10, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

In the late 1930’s, you fled to America, escaping the clutches of your husband, Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer for the Nazis who held you under virtual house arrest. Jealous and possessive, he took you to all his conferences on weapons systems. Little did he...

A spy who had already carried out your mission

by Hedy Lamarr | February 4, 2019 | Introduction | 0 Comments

In the late 1930’s, you fled to America, escaping the clutches of your husband, Fritz Mandl, a munitions manufacturer for the Nazis who held you under virtual house arrest. Jealous and possessive, he took you to all his conferences on weapons systems. Little did he...

Airplane Sonata

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

True to its name, your Airplane Sonata consisted of an arrangement of sixteen player pianos, electric bells, and a spinning airplane prop.

Analog to Digital

by Hedy Lamarr | December 12, 2018 | Frequency Hopping, Introduction | 0 Comments

to the digital. from the analog the passage a life that marks your life, best describes frequency hopping The idea ofthings to come... as the prophet of never to be recognized doomed, like Cassandra, were betrayed by it. technology you who mastered Ironically, things...

Antheil’s Composition Techniques

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Antheil, Introduction | 0 Comments

First, the positive. . . Descriptions of Antheil’s musical technique suggest the same multi-layering of complex relationships. Analyzing Antheil’s Airplane Sonata, Linda Whitesitt describes his “manipulation of ostinato patterns and his technique...

Bad Boy of Music

by Hedy Lamarr | December 10, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

In his The Bad Boy of Music, the avant-garde composer George Antheil recounts meeting you in 1940. At a party hosted by Mitzi Gaynor, while noodling at the piano, Antheil and you stumbled on this new technology...

Ballet Sensation

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

A perfect collaborator, Antheil was well versed in synchronization techniques. He had created such sensation-causing compositions as Ballet Mécanique."I consider my 'Ballet Mécanique' a mad youthful prank!"

Bombarded

by Hedy Lamarr | December 10, 2018 | False Signals, Frequency Hopping, Frequency Jammers, Introduction | 0 Comments

Adrienne Rich's predicament (and strength) mirrors your own... I am bombarded yet I stand. I have been standing all my life in the direct path of a battery of signals the most accurately transmitted most untranslatable language in the universe…...

Cardan Grille

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

An electronic version of the Cardan Grille, a predetermined set of frequencies would be established between sender and receiver, as though each one had the top card with slots that could be placed over the coded message: “Sir John regards you well and spekesagain that...

Ciphering Text

by Hedy Lamarr | December 11, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

As both a ciphering device and a cybertext, your invention's ability to send secret messages through noisy channels can help decode its own author’s life.

Cuban Missile Crisis

by Hedy Lamarr | December 12, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

Patented in 1942, your Secret Communication System would enable torpedoes to find their targets by avoiding enemy jamming of their radio signals.Decades ahead of its time, it would later be employed to encrypt communication signals among U.S. ships during the Cuban...

Desire to Serve by Inventing

by Hedy Lamarr | December 12, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

You announced your intention to join the National Inventors Council“They could just have me around,and ask me questions.”

Dignifying Science

by Hedy Lamarr | December 10, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

In Dignifying Science, a graphic novella devoted to female inventors, Jim Ottaviani further recreates the collaboration between the two of you: A perfect collaborator, Antheil was well versed in synchronization techniques. He had created such sensation-causing...

Electronic Frontier Award

by Hedy Lamarr | December 12, 2018 | Frequency Hopping, Introduction | 0 Comments

Belatedly, in 1997, the Electronic Frontier Foundation acknowledged your contributions to the wireless revolution with a special award. Your response was a sardonic: “It’s about time.”

Foreword

by Hedy Lamarr | October 12, 2019 | FEATURED, Introduction | 0 Comments

Hedy Lamarr has been adored ever since her discovery in her teens until now, and she will continue to be well on into the future. Her list of accomplishments however, was rivaled by the many interruptions she faced throughout her life. With that, you are formally...

Gates

by Hedy Lamarr | December 12, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

Had you not been a true patriot to your adopted country, signing over the patent rights to the government, you would have been more recognized and rewarded than even this fellow...

Human Torch Nazi

by Hedy Lamarr | December 10, 2018 | Introduction | 0 Comments

...and you were more than ready to turn that knowledge against the Nazis!

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