[Healeys] British Motor Car Industry

[Bob Spidell]

IIRC, she was trying to develop a method to keep Navy radio-guided torpedoes from being jammed by the Nazis/Japanese. The Navy rejected her idea because, well, because she was a beautiful woman. 

bob 


----- Original Message -----

From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at comcast.net> 
To: "healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 2:39:33 PM 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] British Motor Car Industry 

Bob Spidell wrote: 
> Hey, we invent the stuff, you expect us to use it too??? 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_%28inventor%29 

On a related off-topic note, I was surprised to learn that actress Hedy 
Lamarr, regarded by some as "the most beautiful [woman] ever to appear 
in films", had a hand in wireless phones. 

>From Wikipedia, 
"Her most significant technological contribution was her co-invention, 
together with composer George Antheil, of an early technique for spread 
spectrum communications and frequency hopping, which paved the way for 
today's wireless communications." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/ 

-- 
Kent McLean 
'56 BN-2 
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