Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr is the favorite star of our quiz club at Univ of Michigan!

Frequency Hopping Peggy 2008

"We could call Lamarr a suicide, grieving about her father, tormented she couldn't save her sister."

Running Blind Child, Lee 2000

He was % inspired by good times he had at legendary drag queen Frank 'Foo Foo' Lamarr's club and iconic Northern Quarter music venue Band on the Wall for this dining out venture.

Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2009

Antheil and Lamarr eventually moved on to talking about the war in Europe.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

Yet even though "Hedy's Folly" ostensibly concerns, as the subtitle has it, "the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world," the book is equally about the role that chance and coincidence can play in the development of technology.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

As Europe in the mid-1930s was roiled by Hitler's rise, Lamarr, a Jew, resolved to flee her homeland and her marriage.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

Lamarr termed the technique "frequency hopping," a forerunner of the spread-spectrum technology that is used today in communications applications such as Wi-Fi.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

Even as she was starring in movies such as "Boom Town" 1940, Lamarr applied her inventing talents to trying to combat German submarines preying on ships in the North Atlantic.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

Like much of this most unusual book about a Hollywood star, Mr. Rhodes relates the Austrian chapter of Lamarr's story with engaging efficiency.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011

He also wrote music for movies and, like Lamarr, tinkered with ideas for inventions.

An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011