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| 2006-09-18 |
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| Posted by:Scooter McGruder |
| #16 Are you not of the female persuasion as well? I am. And I'd dearly love to be able to point to a dazzling female combination of appearance and real inventor smarts. Unfortunately this stunningly beautiful lady does quite fit the latter category. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-09-18 18:33 |
| #15 Try the upper right hand corner, above the "most recent comments," maybe? |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-09-18 17:42 |
| #14 I'm trying to get it positioned right, so it's visible but part of the scenery. Can't think of anyplace else to put it. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-09-18 17:24 |
| #13 I hope it's making Fred a lot of money. I can ignore it. I think of it as a member of the MSM. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-18 16:53 |
| #12 No offense, folks, but "Flyboys" is starting to aggravate the shit outta me... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-18 16:43 |
| #11 Hubba hubba... |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-09-18 14:52 |
| #10 I don't believe it. You're just jealous! She invented lotsa things. And she has a plan for Iraq! And bringing the country together! The evil Halliburton-clones just waited until her patent expired, and ... Just a minute, lotp? Are you not of the female persuasion as well? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-09-18 14:51 |
| #9 Oh, gosh ... I hate to have to say this, but ... Beautiful as she was, and much as I support women inventors, Lamarr and her buddy did NOT invent frequency hopping. They patented an ill-thought-through implementation of it, which no one else had patented because it wasn't workable. Later development of electronics provided a mechanism that made frequency hopping practical for serious use, resulting in spread spectrum radio first for military and eventually for civilian applications. Sorry guys. She's quite lovely and moved in wealthy and influential social circles as a result. But inventor? Not in the way she's being portrayed here. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-09-18 14:10 |
| #8 "Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time. Beauty and a taste for weapons systems, a perfect Rantburg role model. She had the first patent on frequency hopping com systems. More here In the United States Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil, shunned by the Navy, no longer pursued their invention. But in 1957, the concept was taken up by engineers at the Sylvania Electronic Systems Division, in Buffalo, New York. Their arrangement, using, of course, electronics rather than piano rolls, ultimately became a basic tool for secure military communications. It was installed on ships sent to blockade Cuba in 1962, about three years after the Lamarr-Antheil patent had expired. Subsequent patents in frequency changing, which are generally unrelated to torpedo control, have referred to the Lamarr-Antheil patent as the basis of the field, and the concept lies behind the principal anti-jamming device used today, for example, in the U.S. government's Milstar defense communication satellite system. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-09-18 13:00 |
| #7 Given what OS said, I think she is the ideal candidate as official sweetheart. Yes, the complete package. Mmmmmmmmmmm. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2006-09-18 12:39 |
| #6 So has Hedy Lamarr become the Official Sweetheart of Rantburg? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-09-18 12:09 |
| #5 This is disgusting, I'll take two please |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-18 10:28 |
| #4 The brains, the looks and the attitude. Gentlemen, you are looking at the total package. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-09-18 09:37 |
| #3 Nice hat. Musn't allow the sun to touch those creamy white shoulders..... |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-18 08:29 |
| #2 Headly ! |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-09-18 07:17 |
| #1 I saw her first! |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-18 03:24 |