And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
As LL suggests, and for anyone who does not know, she obtained a 1942 patent for a frequency-hopping technology that, while not implemented during the war, is now incorporated into wi-fi and other modern communication technologies. Wiki entry, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr Patent, here: https://www.google.com/patents/US2292387
"That's Hedly!"
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Mel Brooks, "She never got the joke."
Delete"The most beautiful (and the smartest) woman ever to appear in films." She's no Kardashian.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree.........
DeleteGrace Kelly is at least as beautiful IMO but Miss Lamar takes the prize for smartest in a walkover. No contest there.
DeleteAs LL suggests, and for anyone who does not know, she obtained a 1942 patent for a frequency-hopping technology that, while not implemented during the war, is now incorporated into wi-fi and other modern communication technologies.
ReplyDeleteWiki entry, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
Patent, here: https://www.google.com/patents/US2292387
...not just another pretty face!
Well, Clara Bow may have been the original "It Girl," but I'd say Hedy has got a great big supply of "it" herself!
ReplyDeleteLooks and brains are one hell of a hard combination to beat.
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