Hedy lamarr

TIMELINE HEDY LAMARR

By browniedechocolate18

  • FAMILY

    FAMILY
    Her family was Jewish and was born in a wealthy family.
    Her father was the director of the Bank of Viena and her mother was a concert pianist.

  • BIRTH

    BIRTH
    She was born on 9th, November, 1914 in Viena Austria.

  • ADOLESCENCE

    ADOLESCENCE
    She was sent to a finishing school in Switzerland.
    By that time she was more beutiful and attracting attention of two prospective lovers and film producers.
    She had taken acting lessons, she moved on from televition and started working on films.
    She began in 1930 with two films.

  • HUSBAND

    HUSBAND
    She attracted the attention of millionaire Austrian arms dealer Fritz Mandl, whom Lamarr met in December of 1933 and then married.

  • BAD HUSBAND

    BAD HUSBAND
    Whether out of revulsion toward her husband's politics or from sheer restlessness, Lamarr packed a single suitcase with jewelry, drugged her maid, and fled to Paris and then London in 1937. After her escape, she was threatened many times by her ex-husband.

  • HEDY'S INVENTION

    HEDY'S INVENTION
    Despite no formal scientific training, Hedy Lamarr had an exceptional scientific mind, and with her co-inventor George Antheil, they developed a system for radio communication today that is at the core of many communications systems, including the GSM cell phone system.

  • INVENTION IDEA

    INVENTION IDEA
    The basic idea that Hedy Lamarr had in her mind was for a form of radio control mechanism for torpedoes. Although this idea wasn'tt new, the idea of preventing jamming by using a frequency hopping mechanism was. The drawback was that a reliable method had to be sought for ensuring that both the transmitter and receiver were synchronised so that the transmitted signal could be received at the remote end. Antheil's contribution was in proposing a method by which this could be achieved.

  • WORK ON THE INVENTION

    The two worked on the idea for several months before sending a description of the concept to the National Inventions Council. According to Antheil, the director of the council suggested that he and Lamarr should develop the idea to a point where it could be patented. Enlisting the help of an electrical engineer continued their development to a point where it was operational.It used slotted paper rolls to provide synchronization of the frequency changes at the transmitter and receiver.

  • ''SECRET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM''

    ''SECRET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM''
    The two applied for the patent. Patent numbe was granted on 11th August 1941 under her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey, along with co-inventor George Antheil, as a "Secret Communication System". The name Markey was that of the second of six of Hedy Lamarr's husbands.

  • LAMARR'S FINALS YEARS

    LAMARR'S FINALS YEARS
    During her life Hedy Lamarr married a total of six times and she had three children.
    Hedy Lamarr died in January 2000 aged 86 in a modest home in Florida.

  • FAMOUS QUOTE

    FAMOUS QUOTE
    During her life she was quoted as saying:
    "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." While she was certainly glamorous, as proven by her invention, she was most certainly not stupid.