Beauty and brains this blue Monday

I read an article today on the Internet about Hedy Lamar..   not only was she a Hollywood beauty and well know actress ....she was also mathematically minded and an inventor?       The glamour of the silver screen blinded most people to her inventor's passion that would lead to a patented "frequency hopping" breakthrough still used in civilian and military technologies today.     

The reason she set up inventor's room in her house and pursued inventing as a hobby was that she didn't drink, didn't smoke and didn't like parties,"    She eventually invented a new torpedo guidance system for the U.S. Navy.    
   

Her most recognized work came from co-inventing a frequency-hopping wireless signal for guiding U.S. Navy torpedoes to their targets. But even after Lamar enlisted the help of fellow inventor George Antheil and received a "Secret Communications System" patent in 1942, the U.S. Navy ignored the breakthrough until its engineers rediscovered the patent in the mid-1950s

  

To read more of the excerpt from Jeremy Hsu

go to the link below.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46848978/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/ 

My hats off to a smart and beautiful lady  

I am joining Smiling Sally for Blue Monday

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