Hedy Lamarr was so much more than a famous actress. She was also a brilliant, self-educated scientist who no one took seriously. Hedy began life in Austria as Hedy Kiesler and married a Nazi arms dealer. After her escape to America, she not only became a film star, she co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes. The technology was hidden away by the military until it became the backbone for today’s Bluetooth technology. Hedy and her partner, who never benefited from the invention as the patent had expired, were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
If you enjoyed reading and learning about Hedy, you might want to check out Marie Benedict's only novels about Benedict's women. The Eastpointe library does not have all of Benedict's book but one of the reference librarians will be happy to request it for you from an area library.
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