Delilah;Hedy Lamarr

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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor renowned both as a glamorous Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s and as a co-inventor of frequency-hopping technology that laid groundwork for modern wireless communication.

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instanceOf film actress
human
inventor
birthName Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
causeOfDeath heart disease
citizenship Austria
United States of America
coInvented frequency-hopping spread spectrum system
coInventedWith George Antheil
countryOfBirth Austro-Hungarian Empire
surface form: Austria-Hungary
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-11-09
dateOfDeath 2000-01-19
ethnicGroup Austrian Jews
familyName Kiesler
fieldOfWork cinema
radio technology
telecommunications
givenName Hedwig
hasStarOn Hollywood Walk of Fame
inspiredTechnology Bluetooth
IMT-2000 family
surface form: CDMA

Wi-Fi
languageSpoken English
German
name Hedy Lamarr
notableAward EFF Pioneer Award
surface form: Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award

Invention Convention Hall of Fame induction
notableWork Algiers (1938 film)
Ecstasy (1933 film)
Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
co-invention of frequency-hopping spread spectrum
numberOfChildren 3
occupation film actress
inventor
producer
patent U.S. Patent 2,292,387
patentIssueDate 1942-08-11
patentTitle Secret Communication System
placeOfBirth Vienna
surface form: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
placeOfDeath Casselberry, Florida
surface form: Casselberry, Florida, United States
portrayedIn Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
posthumousRecognition dubbed “the mother of Wi-Fi”
religion Judaism
spouse Friedrich Mandl
Gene Markey
John Loder
Lewis J. Boies
Teddy Stauffer
W. Howard Lee
yearsActive 1930–1958

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