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The Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr is best known as a voluptuous screen goddess of the late-1930s and ’40s. But in the annals of science, Antheil and Lamarr, who became friends in...
Mar 5, 2024 · George Antheil was an avante-garde music composer who lost his brother in the earliest days of the war. Antheil and Hedy were kindred spirits—two brilliant, if unconventional minds dead set...
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George met Hedy at a Hollywood dinner party, and he later admitted that his “eyeballs sizzled, and that her breasts were fine too.” They probably did not have an affair because Hedy preferred tall men, and Antheil was described by Time magazine as “cello-sized.”
May 26, 2020 · Lamarr’s path to inventing the cornerstone of Wi-Fi began when she heard about the Navy’s difficulties with radio-controlled torpedoes. She recruited George Antheil, a composer she met through MGM Studios, in order to create what was known as a Secret Communication System.
In 1941, Antheil and the actress Hedy Lamarr developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronize frequency changes, referred to as frequency hopping, between the transmitter and receiver.
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May 17, 2018 · May 17, 2018. Hedy Lamarr in crown on stars in film “Ziegfeld Girl,” 1941. Credit: Everett Collection. George Antheil was an American composer, avant-garde and inventive, best known for his...
I came across the composer and concert pianist George Antheil’s 1945 autobiography, Bad Boy of Music , and found that in it he mentions his collaboration with Hedy Lamarr. The screen star was born in Vienna in 1914—or 1913, according to some, or 1915, according to her—as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.
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