Tenzin Tsomo, Grade 11
UWC Red Cross Nordic
1914, in the city of Vienna, a couple welcomed their first and only child, Hedy Lamarr. She grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family, and her parents showered her with lots of attention. Her father was a bank director who loved venturing new ideas and encouraged his daughter greatly to expand her thoughts and curiosity. Hedwig grew up with a brilliant mind, always disassembling watches and building junk into functioning objects. Her passion for inventing could be seen at such a young age. As her father inspired her to invent, her mother introduced her to ballet and piano. Her early life was filled with learning and pursuing varied interests.
Lamarr's splendid psyche was overlooked, and her beauty became the dominant focal point when she was discovered by chief Max Reinhardt at age 16. She started acting in movies that did not make it big but finally got some recognition as an actress after performing in a questionable movie called 'Ecstasy'.
After seeing her movies, an Austrian arms dealer became a fan of hers. They later married but the matrimony was short-lived. She said "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife … He was the absolute monarch in his marriage … I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own." And it was also said that he had some shady ties with the Nazis. Lamarr fled from her house with the information of war weaponry collected among dinner conversations. She left London and arrived in America.
Her arrival in America was unexpectedly aided by the co-founder of the prestigious MGM studios. Giving her the golden ticket to Hollywood. The crowd in America went wild for her. Her beauty and accent shot her to fame. However, her inventor side never came out. It was when she met the famous Howard Hughes, who was so impressed with her intellectuality that he gave her access to his team of scientists, allowing her to execute her ideas. They bonded with each other over their shared interest for inventing, and they grew romantically involved. During their time together, it is said that she created numerous inventions for the government. Her mind beautifully molded ideas into objects. As she invented, her acting career also skyrocketed becoming an icon in her generation. Her brains and beauty were unparalleled.
In 1940 Lamarr met George Antheil at an evening gathering. Antheil was another eccentric yet astute gentlemen. Known for his composition, film scores, and test music pieces, he had a similar creative soul to Lamarr. She and Antheil discussed an assortment of subjects, one of their most prominent concerns was the approaching war. Antheil reviewed, "Hedy said that she didn't feel truly great, staying there in Hollywood and raking in boatloads of cash when things were in such a state." After her union with Mandl, she had information on weapons and different weaponry that would demonstrate gainfully. Thus, Lamarr and Antheil started to fiddle with thoughts to battle the pivot powers.
The two thought of an unprecedented new correspondence framework utilized the expectation of directing torpedoes to their objectives in war. The framework included the utilization of "recurrence bouncing" among radio waves, with both transmitter and beneficiary jumping to new frequencies together and doing so forestalled the capture attempt of the radio waves, consequently permitting the torpedo to locate its proposed target.
It wasn't until Lamarr's later years that she got any honors for her innovation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation mutually granted Lamarr and Antheil with their Pioneer Award in 1997. Lamarr likewise turned into the primary lady to get the Invention Convention's Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award. In spite of the fact that she kicked the bucket in 2000, Lamarr was enlisted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the improvement of her recurrence bouncing innovation in 2014. Such accomplishment has driven Lamarr to be named "the mother of Wi-Fi" and different remote interchanges like GPS and Bluetooth.
Lamarr's splendid psyche was overlooked, and her beauty became the dominant focal point when she was discovered by chief Max Reinhardt at age 16. She started acting in movies that did not make it big but finally got some recognition as an actress after performing in a questionable movie called 'Ecstasy'.
After seeing her movies, an Austrian arms dealer became a fan of hers. They later married but the matrimony was short-lived. She said "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife … He was the absolute monarch in his marriage … I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded—and imprisoned—having no mind, no life of its own." And it was also said that he had some shady ties with the Nazis. Lamarr fled from her house with the information of war weaponry collected among dinner conversations. She left London and arrived in America.
Her arrival in America was unexpectedly aided by the co-founder of the prestigious MGM studios. Giving her the golden ticket to Hollywood. The crowd in America went wild for her. Her beauty and accent shot her to fame. However, her inventor side never came out. It was when she met the famous Howard Hughes, who was so impressed with her intellectuality that he gave her access to his team of scientists, allowing her to execute her ideas. They bonded with each other over their shared interest for inventing, and they grew romantically involved. During their time together, it is said that she created numerous inventions for the government. Her mind beautifully molded ideas into objects. As she invented, her acting career also skyrocketed becoming an icon in her generation. Her brains and beauty were unparalleled.
In 1940 Lamarr met George Antheil at an evening gathering. Antheil was another eccentric yet astute gentlemen. Known for his composition, film scores, and test music pieces, he had a similar creative soul to Lamarr. She and Antheil discussed an assortment of subjects, one of their most prominent concerns was the approaching war. Antheil reviewed, "Hedy said that she didn't feel truly great, staying there in Hollywood and raking in boatloads of cash when things were in such a state." After her union with Mandl, she had information on weapons and different weaponry that would demonstrate gainfully. Thus, Lamarr and Antheil started to fiddle with thoughts to battle the pivot powers.
The two thought of an unprecedented new correspondence framework utilized the expectation of directing torpedoes to their objectives in war. The framework included the utilization of "recurrence bouncing" among radio waves, with both transmitter and beneficiary jumping to new frequencies together and doing so forestalled the capture attempt of the radio waves, consequently permitting the torpedo to locate its proposed target.
It wasn't until Lamarr's later years that she got any honors for her innovation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation mutually granted Lamarr and Antheil with their Pioneer Award in 1997. Lamarr likewise turned into the primary lady to get the Invention Convention's Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award. In spite of the fact that she kicked the bucket in 2000, Lamarr was enlisted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the improvement of her recurrence bouncing innovation in 2014. Such accomplishment has driven Lamarr to be named "the mother of Wi-Fi" and different remote interchanges like GPS and Bluetooth.
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