Hedy Lamarr |4 Mother of Invention

ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling

English - November 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 133 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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In the final installment in our series on Hedy Lamarr, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Hedy Lamarr's most famous invention, frequency hopping, and how the US government f*cked her in the deal to the tune of 30 billion dollars. How is it possible that the inventor that brought us WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth never saw a dime? Because she happened to be a dime herself, of course.

Sources:

Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr, by Stephen Michael Shearer

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean.

Hedy Lamarr by Ruth Barton

Credits:

Hosted by: Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling

Script by: Ela Darling

Produced by: Joshua Anderson

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