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AN INVENTOR
THIS HOLLYWOOD STAR WAS ALSO
Hedy Lamarr lived one of the most extraordinary lives ever even by Hollywood's reckoning
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Born Hedwig Kiesler in Austria, she has been described as one of the greatest movie stars of all time
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Hedy moved to Hollywood in 1937 after a brief and controversial career in European cinema
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The move also helped her escape her abusive first husband, a businessman with Nazi links
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Hedy's Hollywood career highlights included 'Algiers' (1938), 'Lady Of The Tropics' (1939) and 'Samson And Delilah' (1949)
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However, Hedy Lamarr's more lasting legacy has been in the world of science and technology
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The self-taught Hedy tinkered with ideas and inventions in her spare time
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During World War 2, she and pianist George Antheil invented a frequency hopping signal
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The aim was to prevent radio-guided torpedoes from being jammed by an enemy signal
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Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil filed for a patent and also received an award for their work
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The tech was not adopted by the US Navy until later. However, it didn't end there
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The principles of Hedy Lamarr's work were used in Bluetooth and GPS tech
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Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil's work also influenced legacy versions of wi-fi
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