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From a skin flick to bluetooth. One woman's amazing life.
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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. This kind of encoding is only
possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.
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