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They resuscitated the idea of frequency-hopping and built it into the sonobuoy.
News 2011
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The frequency-hopping technology was not put to use in World War II, but it was employed in 1962 during the blockade of Cuba.
An Inventive Hollywood Star Henry Petroski 2011
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The new interest appears to be motivated by the recent discovery that, in 1942, Lamarr and avant-garde musician George Antheil patented a frequency-hopping radio-communications technique, which they hoped could control torpedoes.
Her Face Was Her Misfortune Jeanine Basinger 2010
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Even a frequency-hopping encrypted radio signal could be caught these days, so if you transmitted, you had to assume someone was listening.
Hell Island Matthew Reilly 2010
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Those of you reading this on your laptop using wi-fi can thank Hedy for inventing the basic frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology that forms the foundation of wi-fi.
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Those of you reading this on your laptop using wi-fi can thank Hedy for inventing the basic frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology that forms the foundation of wi-fi.
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The scheme the movie star and the composer came up with is what later came to be know as frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
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Then I suppose I should tell you that the frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as COFDM used in WiFi network connections and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones.
Ada Lovelace day or my tribute to women in technology Addie 2009
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The film will focus on the life of Lamarr who was a huge Hollywood star as well as a scientist who helped to create frequency-hopping within signals, something that was a building block of today's modern wireless communications.
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The scheme the movie star and the composer came up with is what later came to be know as frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
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