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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 261 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
4) Hedy Lamarr
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Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Description
This fascinating biography tells the story of famous actress Hedy Lamarr, a trailblazer in both the world of science and film, who developed the technology that formed the basis of WiFi and Bluetooth used today.
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Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Shares the life of the actress and inventor, describing how she overcame prejudice and stereotypes to become an accomplished inventor whose work helped pave the way for many modern communication technologies.
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Hedy Lamarr became a movie legend, but her true loves were always science and engineering. During World War II, Hedy collaborated with another inventor on an innovative technology called frequency hopping. It was designed to prevent the enemy from jamming torpedo radio signals and commanding weapons to go off course. Frequency hopping is still used today to keep our cell phone messages private and defend our computers from hackers. In this biography,...
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