Hedy Lamarr by Kiara Daniela SALAS THUNJAR https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf en-us 2022-09-07 16:58:23 UTC 2022-09-09 17:12:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2712.png Hedy Lamarr, the woman who invented the WiFi 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286825490 2022-09-07 17:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286825490 1914 - Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286829617 2022-09-07 17:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286829617 1931 - Lamarr started her cinematographic career 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286840786 2022-09-07 17:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286840786 1932 - At the age of 19 Hedy was linked in a marriage of convenience with Fritz Mandl (an arms manufacturer) Fritz was a despotic pro-Nazi who had supplied arms and ammunition to Mussolini's troops during the occupation of Abyssinia. Hedy had to give up her budding film career. Despite this, Hedy took advantage of the endless meetings in which she escorted Fritz and his clients to learn about weapons technology. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286850937 2022-09-07 17:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286850937 1933 - She achieved celebrity by being the first woman to perform a film nude. It was in the film "Ecstasy", in which for 10 minutes she appears completely naked. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286853732 2022-09-07 17:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286853732 1938 - She starred in the movie "Algiers" alongside Charles Boyer. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286874630 2022-09-07 17:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286874630 1941 - In 1941 Hedy met the avant-garde composer George Antheil, with whom she immediately struck up a friendship. They designed a device inspired by the perforated rolls of player pianos and the cacophonies of some of George's musical experiments. In the final design sending perforated coils were incorporated into the sending and receiving stations, which were thus able to synchronize and switch their frequencies. In this way, any intruder would detect a strange noise. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286878367 2022-09-07 17:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2286878367 1942 - On August 11, 1942, the date on which the United States definitively entered World War II, the patent was registered in Washington, and a little later, transferred to the North American army. In the images that document it, the inscription ``H.K Markey. The initials are those of Hedwig Kiesler, Markey being her married name at the time 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2288532538 2022-09-08 16:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2288532538 1942 - The first public mention of the invention appeared in the New York Times, despite which, and although no one questioned the interest and relevance of the invention, the authorities of the time did not consider the possibility of its practical realization due to technological impediments. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289991546 2022-09-09 16:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289991546 1957 - 15 years after Hedy and George's patent was registered, the American firm Sylvania Electronics developed a remote control device in which the primitive perforated scrolls had been replaced by electronic circuits. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289993998 2022-09-09 16:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289993998 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289994848 2022-09-09 16:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2289994848 1997 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded the prestigious EFF Pioneer Award to Hedy Lamarr and, posthumously, to George Antheil, at a ceremony held in San Francisco on March 12, 1997, which was attended, on behalf of the actress, by one of her sons. , Anthony Loder. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290000216 2022-09-09 16:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290000216 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290000889 2022-09-09 16:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290000889 1997 - Lamarr and Antheil also received the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, as well as an honorary distinction from the Milstar project. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290002130 2022-09-09 16:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290002130 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290003878 2022-09-09 16:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290003878 1998 - Hedy received in Vienna (her hometown) the Viktor Kaplan medal, awarded by the Austrian Association of Inventors and Patent Holders. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290005100 2022-09-09 16:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290005100 1999 - In the summer of 1999, the Vienna Kunsthalle organized a multimedia project, including a retrospective of her film career, in homage to one of the most unique actresses and inventors the century has known. It is said that when Hedy was informed of the award of the EFF prize, she remained undaunted and exclaimed succinctly: "it's about me". 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290005972 2022-09-09 16:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290005972 2000 - On January 19, 2000, Hedy Lamarr passed away. 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290007716 2022-09-09 16:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290007716 61320531 https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290023223 2022-09-09 17:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/61320531/opj3zz3kdzs678vf/wish/2290023223