Journalist Unearths Audio Taped Hedy Interviews

[@benheideveld4617]

I’m a physicist and an IT-Architect, and you know what I feel for Hedy? Nerd pride!!

[@abidnessman]

Wish it were a longer recording.

[@KevinSanderson]

Jay and Randy, have you read Hedy and George Antheil's patent? It has been cited in 66 other patents as a basis for those companies patents. Her father taught her much about how things worked. At 5 she took apart and put back together her music box which still plays today. She smashed a light bulb to see what was in it. She was bright at chemistry in school. Inventing was her hobby early that her father encouraged. They used to work on and take apart radios. She referenced a Philco radio consumer remote control that was around since 1939 in the notes for the patent. You have all the electronic groups who said her idea was the basis for how wi-fi, cdma, and the Milstar systems work. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lockheed, and the Navy gave Hedy awards for the system. Antheil said it was her idea and he basically wrote it down contributing his player piano knowledge used to switch and synchronize the frequencies for the system. Professor Samuel Mackeown of Cal Tech worked on it and the Inventors Council in Washington. Hedy and George started work on it in 1940 ending with the patent in 1942. Lyon and Lyon in LA got the patent in order. Hedy and George worked on more including a proximity bomb.

[@yaelissac8537]

Do you have some sources?

[@KevinSanderson]

@@yaelissac8537 "Hedy's Folly" by Richard Rhodes (he wrote an award winning book about the Atom Bomb and another on the Hydrogen Bomb) is the best place to start. Many interviews and articles by Alexandra Dean who did the big documentary which is fact checked. A ton more that have little bit here and there. I was digging into this about 3 years.

[@ullintalulna7066]

Where can you find the complete interviews, all the four? thank you for sharing this :-)

[@annalisavajda252]

Sad her being intelligent was completely disregarded because she was attractive also typical with girls especially I think. I too was "a gifted child" valedictorian at age 12 took advanced classes throughout highschool but people admire smart girls only till puberty then you are just desirable or not, middle age is almost a relief you think because maybe now people will listen to your mind again but no that's not the way of the world.

[@hedylamarr1637]

nice

[@handrabgo5157]

The link for the full episode doesn't work in my area, is it possible to view on another source? I really want to hear what she says

[@MsReny]

where did I find them?.. well, have you ever seen the cinematic film 'sinister'?

[@stewartdrabble-tv3up]

Fantastic, magnificent and absolutely stunning an actress(with brains too!). I loved, and adored you Hedy Lamarr(especially, in Samson and Delilah!). From, a very avid fan of yours, Mr. Stewart Samuel Drabble(from England, in the UK). P.S. I loved you my girl! P.S. I miss you, and I hope to be with you in eternity! P.S. You were adorable, and fascinating!

[@palmshoot]

His pop really looked like Dan Aykroyd.

[@rkgrant]

Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover (born June 19, 1926) is an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method. She was one of a number of gifted female engineers, who devoted their entire careers to their field and who did really innovative work. Lamar was not among that group. She knew nothing of electrical engineering. This is not to say that she wasn't smart and intellectually inquisitive which she was. She was also a gifted actress with exceptional screen presence. But a pioneer of wi-fi? It's an absurd claim propagated by the ignorant or by the knowledgeable enchanted by Lamar's glamour.

[@mefirst5427]

Actually reading the declassified patent notes she wrote was fascinating. I think she had natural talent for pattern recognition and creative design, her idea of synchronizing the sender and receiver was unique for her time. It is funny the Navy thought the mechanical implementation was too bulky at the time, it was not until transistors were widely used in the 1950's that her design was actually implemented for practical purpose. She might not have understood the technology, but she did come up with the creative intuition for it.

[@jay-rathod-01]

Answer me this simple question: were the PhD's and scholars in wireless communication at that time were so dumb that they did not come up with this idea that an actress out of nowhere invented.

[@rkgrant]

I agree and there is nothing in this tape to support the absurd claim that Lamar was a gifted inventor and pioneer of wi-fi.

[@KevinSanderson]

They weren't thinking outside of the box, that's probably why the great minds failed. The Navy wanted torpedoes to work first before anything else. It's not an absurd claim about Hedy Lamarr as there is more proof now than ever since the patent was declassified. She was super motivated to help the US and British. And you can't say she was out of nowhere. She had been married to a munitions manufacturer in Austria who had dealings with Nazis and fascists. She listened to them at the dinners her husband hosted. She had a natural aptitude and inquisitive mind since she was 5 and her father used to explain to her how things worked. She would've easily picked up on what their guests were discussing.

[@RhythmAddictedState]

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