Hedy Lamarr, Old Hollywood sex symbol was the brain. The fact that there may be almost unnoticed as the inventor of the war created: the technology of interest as the precursor of Bluetooth.Not surprisingly, he is best known for her sultry character because of his role in the film that made everyone sit. In 1933, the '"Ecstasy", the Czech film, raised his eyebrows and drew condemnation from around the world when he appeared naked in a part of the film, and a simulated orgasm by another.
Lamarr is seen to go skinny-dipping, and even without a point, chasing a runaway horse. Scene after orgasm is, and, yes, is smoking a cigarette after. "Ecstasy" is considered the first theatrically released film actor simulating an orgasm on the screen.
Take That, Meg Ryan.
Now, Richard Rhodes has revealed the tawdry side of this legendary beauty and star.
His new book, "Hedy Madness: The Life and Progress inventions Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world," the invention and how their role in its creation has been ignored for too long.
In a recent interview on NPR's "All Things Considered" Rhodes said Lamarr was the kind of person who "was always looking in the world and wondering how you can fix, what can be improved."
At the beginning of an unhappy marriage the Austrian arms dealer (!), Rhodes said Lamarr was sitting at the dinner as Nazi generals of her husband, listening to them talk about weapons. His interest in science, he said, he listened attentively to talk about guns.
Lamarr later escaped that marriage - but not dress like one of his servants and jumping through a window. This story was Lamarr's invention, he says. She, however, the passage in a book of boat Louis Mayer, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and when the ship reached its destination, had a seven-year, $ 3,000 per week contract to study cinema.
"Algiers" (1938) with Charles Boyer, followed soon after, and Lamarr became a big star.
Lamarr was born in the invention, Rhodes said, because "he was well aware of the war to come. 'Glued to the State newspaper, reading the stories. ... When the Germans started torpedoing submarines, passenger ships, he felt that point, "I 've got to find something that will stop.'"
His idea was to make a radio signal "bouncing around in the radio frequency radio frequency," said Rhodes that interfere with the jamming signal. Thus, a radio guided torpedoes to be less fear of being caught the signal.
She and a partner were awarded a patent, then gave him free US Navy. Brilliant, yes?
The Navy "Basically, the file is launched," said Rhodes. Later, however, the idea of frequency hopping has been revived by the Navy, and "then the whole system spread like wildfire. Most Bluetooth applications is now well known."
Why not Hedy Lamarr invented a famous name?
The patent had expired, said Rhodes, in addition, much of the life of the aircraft was a military secret. At the time he left, had gone through many permutations with the help of various sources.
"It was simply lost in the noise
