Meet Hedy Lamarr - Hollywood star and inventor of Wi-Fi

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Hedy Lamarr was a true pioneer, but let’s set the record straight: She co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum during WWII to secure radio-guided torpedoes—an incredible contribution to tech! However, she did not invent Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS. Those technologies came later and were built by many engineers over decades.

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Kids vacant learn more about this amazing woman in the book, HEDY LAMARR’S DOUBLE LIFE

[scottcarroll]

She did not invent WiFi lol. Frequency hopping was invented before she was even born. What she did was CO-invent an unwieldy device for randomizing radio signals, punching out the signals on a paper roll, similar to a player piano. Her device employed frequency hopping (which, as we established, was a technique invented before she was born).

The device was completely unworkable due to its size and was rejected by the US Navy. WiFi and the internet do not even use frequerncy hopping. Blue Tooth uses frequency hopping. But, again, she didn't invent frequency hopping.

These are all FACTS. This myth abouut her being some brilliant scientist has grown to absurd proportions. She was an amateur inventor who filed one patent for a device that used a technique that she did not invent.