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http://good-wallpapers.com/wallpapers/21876/Hedy%20Lamarr.jpg Every tech geek's dream girl. On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, michael gurstein wrote: > From: triumphofcont...@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:triumphofcont...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anjana Basu > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 8:35 AM > Subject: [TriumphOfContent] From a skin flick to bluetooth. One woman's > amazing life. > > From a skin flick to bluetooth. One woman's amazing life. > > <http://www.quora.com/Simon-Brown-8> Simon Brown > > It all started with a skin flick. > > In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie > director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. > Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie also featured > a simulated orgasm. To make the scene "vivid", the director reportedly > stabbed the actress with a sharp pin just off-screen. > > The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was > talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman. > Louis B Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful > woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of > course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused > to sell his copy at any price. > > The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the > secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid". > > In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She'd grown > up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a Mathematics > prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, > using all the power her body and mind gave her. Between the sexual roles > she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler > would confound the men in her life, including her six husbands, two of the > most ruthless dictators of the 20thCentury, and one of the greatest movie > producers in history. Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to > have made - and spent - $30 million in her life. But her greatest > accomplishment resulted from her intellect, and her invention continues to > shape the world we live in today. > > You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable > technologies ever developed right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing > to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one > of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office. > Today, when you use your mobile telephone or, over the next few years, as > you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called > "long-term evolution" or LTE Technology), you'll be using an extension of > the technology a 20-year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner > with Hitler. > > At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men > in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria's leading arms maker. His firm > would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young > wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of > the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favourite > topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini > - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes. > Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled > alternatives that prevailed at the time. > > Kiesler sat through these dinners "looking stupid", while absorbing > everything she heard. Being Jewish, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred > her husband's business ambitions. Mandl responded to his wilful wife by > imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to > escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid's > clothes, and sold her jewellery to finance a trip to London. She escaped > just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Friedrich > Mandl's factory as he was half-Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. Later, he > became an adviser to Argentina's iconic populist president, Juan Peron. > > In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B Mayer. She signed a > long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She > appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy > Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a > blockbuster. But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about > making movies. In 1942 at the height of her fame, she developed a new kind > of communications system, optimised for sending coded messages that couldn't > be "jammed". She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and > guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to > kill Nazis. > > By the 1940's, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of > single-frequency radio-controlled technology Friedrich Mandl had been > peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the > appropriate frequency and "jam" or intercept the signal, thereby interfering > with the missile's intended path. Kiesler's key innovation was to "change > the channel". It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the > wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message > would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The > problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronise the frequency > changes on both the receiver and the transmitter. To solve the problem, she > turned to perhaps the world's first techno-musician, George Antheil. > > Antheil was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for > creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronised his melodies > across twelve player pianos (or pianolas), producing stereophonic sounds no > one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Antheil's technology for > synchronising his pianolas. Then, she was able to synchronise the frequency > changes between a weapon's receiver and its transmitter. On the 11th of > August, 1942, US Patent Number 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and to "Hedy > Kiesler Markey", which was her married name at the time. Most of you > wouldn't' recognise the name Kiesler, or remember the name Hedy Markey. But > it's a fair bet than anyone reading this newsletter of a certain age will > remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood's "Golden Age" - Hedy > Lamarr. That's the name Louis B Mayer gave to his prized actress. That's > the name his film company made famous. > > Meanwhile, almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler - aka Hedy Lamarr - was one of > the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology was developed > by the US Navy, which has used it ever since. You're probably using > Lamarr's technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of "spread > spectrum technology", which you use every day when you log on to a Wi-Fi > network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephone. It lies > at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called > fourth-generation "LTE" Wireless technology. This next generation of mobile > telephones phones and their accompanying towers will provide tremendous > increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless > signals across the entire available spectrum. 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