Published: 27 November 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
By day, she wore her bejewelled, plumed working clothes for MGM’s Ziegfeld Girls. By night, she assumed her secret—or perhaps, actual—identity as an amateur inventor, developing a “frequency hopping” radio device, with her colleague, the avant-garde composer George Antheil, that anticipated contemporary wireless communication.
FULL STORY Actress Hedy Lamarr, the real-life Jewish wonder woman whose inventions led to wifi and GPS (Tablet)
