[GreenKeys] RIP Hedy Lamarr

[Richard Knoppow]

    The patent can be found at:
https://www.google.com/patents/US2292387

     Its issued to her under her married name at the time, Hedwig 
Kiesler Markey as H.K.Markey and to George Antheil as co inventor.
     The piano roll is actually a punched paper tape.
     Its interesting how many later patents reference this one. I think 
she held other patents but have not done a formal search.
     Its interesting to me that she became reclusive in her old age, 
much like Marlene Deitrich, I guess getting old is not fun (actually I 
know that).
     There is an interesting history of torpedoes at:
https://maritime.org/doc/jolie/part1.htm

On 1/18/2018 2:51 PM, Nick wrote:
> I looked up her story on Wikipedia. Very interesting  !!!
> She was also a very talented and beautiful actress. But she teamed up 
> with George Antheil to accomplish the invention. Not sure who really 
> earned the credit.
> Doesn't matter, sure an interesting story if you digg a bit deeper !!!
> 
> Nick  -  N0NCQ
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> From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
> Date: 1/18/18 5:20 PM (GMT-05:00)
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> Subject: [GreenKeys] RIP Hedy Lamarr
> 
> We lost a siren of the big screen, Hedy Lamarr (real name Hedwig Kiesler),
> on this day in 2000; I'll bet that not many people know that she invented
> the frequency-hopping homing torpedo (based upon paper tape), but the Navy
> wasn't interested.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will 
> suffer."
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