Hedy Lamarr

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2 Table Of Contents Her Story 3-4 The Monument 5-6 Campus Location 7-8 City Location 9-10 Frequency Hopping 11-12 Collage of Lamarr 12-13

Her Story

Hedy Lamarr- Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler- was born in Vienna, Austria on November 9, 1914. She is an American film actress and inventor. Lamarr first gained notice from an Austrian film director in 1933 and her acting career took off. After her divorce from her husband Fritz Mandl, Lamarr traveled to the United States, signed a contract with the Hollywood studio, and changed her name to Hedy Lamar. Lamarr gained recognition in America quickly and became a “box-office sensation.”

At a young age Lamarr was interested in the aspect of science and technology but it was set aside to focus on her beauty career. It wasn’t until she came to America that she put her passion up front. In between sets, she would get a small set of equipment to use. She was friends with Howard Hughes a businessman and pilot. Hughes once took Lamarr to his airplane factories and showed her how planes were built. Inspired by what she saw Lamarr bought books of fish and a book of birds and looked at the fastest of each kind. She then combined the fins of the fastest ones and sketched a design for Hughes planes. Hughes was impressed with her worked and when asked how she was so talented. She simply said, “Improving things one naturally to me.”

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In 1940, Lamarr attended a dinner party and met George Antheil, known for his writing, film scores, and music compositions. After talking to Antheil the whole night and addressing her concerns about the war and how she wants to make an impact instead of making the majority of the money. Lamarr and Antheil began to think of ideas that could help weaken the axis power.

Lamarr and Antheil invented a new communication system, that would be used to safely get the torpedoes to their targets in the war. This would be done by something called frequency hopping. That would make the transmitter and receiver hopping the frequencies together and prevent the torpedo from being caught. This frequency hopping technique was later known as WI-Fi “wireless communications- GPS and Bluetooth.”

Lamarr deserves a monument for inventing something so powerful and important in today’s society. Without the invention of WIFI, we wouldn’t be able to do anything we currently do. This invention changed society and should be recognized. The monument would be like a 3D start that has multiple “frequency hopping” that shows details about the inventions. I would put this invention in the courtyard of the Explanatory building, the second area would be next to the Engineering building.

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The Hedy Lamarr Monumnet

The proposed monumnet dedicated to Ms. Hedy

Lamrr will represent her aspiration to follow her dreams. It will show her aspiration to become a scientist but her struggle to choose between both of her passions.

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