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Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, but she also made extraordinary contributions to the world of technology, especially in the field of wireless communications.
Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914 in Austria, started her acting career at a very young age. He starred in various famous films such as "Algiers" (1938) with Charles Boyer, and "Samson and Delilah" (1949) with Victor Mature.
During World War II, Hedy Lamarr felt called to contribute to the war effort. Together with his friend and American inventor, George Antheil, he developed a wireless communications system called "frequency-hopping spread spectrum." This system is designed to make military messages more secure by changing the transmission frequency randomly so that it is difficult for enemies to disrupt or intercept the message.
In 1942, Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil succeeded in obtaining a patent for their invention known as United States Patent No. 2,292,387. Although this technology was not directly used in war, the concept of frequency-hopping spread spectrum became the basis for the development of modern wireless communications technology, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
Although recognition of Hedy Lamarr's technological contributions was late in coming, in 1997, she received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award for her contributions to technology. Further recognition came after her death in 2000, when she was honored as one of the most influential women in the history of wireless communications technology.

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