Hedy Lamarr, glamorous siren of the silver screen, was more than 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'. She invented Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology that makes the world of wireless ...

Today, wireless communication is something we tend to take for granted. Most of us probably have no idea how our Bluetooth devices, cell phones, and Wi-Fi networks function. It might surprise you to ...

If you used Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet today, you owe a bit of gratitude to Hedy Lamarr. Monday's Google doodle celebrated what would have been the 101st birthday of Hedy Lamarr, the ...

Upon hearing the name Hedy Lamarr, whom do you see? A smoldering, bejeweled temptress, perched on velour cushions, in the 1949 Hollywood classic "Samson and Delilah?" Or, a demure and professionally ...

Hedy Lamarr played much more than "the most beautiful woman in the world" as an Austrian-American actress during Hollywood's Golden Age. The mathematically-minded inventor first learned about military ...

Two children’s books out this week tell kid-friendly stories of Hedy Lamarr’s contributions to the scientific community: 'Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor,' by Laurie ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of invention documents, primarily typescript correspondence and one notebook of hand drawn sketches and handwritten notes that ...

Hedy Lamarr was ridiculously lovely. Both Catwoman and Snow White were based on her look. As a teenager, Lamarr was cast in the controversial Czechoslovakian film Ecstasy, where she ran naked through ...

Before performer Heather Massie enrolled at the Virginia Tech School of the Arts, she wanted to be an astronaut. That might make her uniquely qualified to embody Hedy Lamarr, a beauty queen and movie ...

Gal Gadot is going from Wonder Woman to Old Hollywood. Gadot has set her sights on her next project, where she will play famed actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in an untitled limited series, it was ...