April 12, 2024
Rare Vintage, 1941 Western Family Magazine with Hedy Lamarr, November 6, 1941
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This magazine is in amazing condition. 19 pages in total.What is so special about this magazine is that they are premoteing the beautify of Hedy Lamarr during World War II. She was actually a brilliant scientist too. She was busy inventing technology that would later change warfare as we know it.I love the dichotomy of her beauty being acknowledged while her true gift was being over looked.The following is form Wikipedia:Lamarr's reputation as an inventor is based on her co-creation of a frequency-hopping system with George Antheil, an avant garde composer and neighbor of Lamarr in California. During World War II, Lamarr was inspired to contribute to the war effort, and focused her efforts on countering torpedoes. In her home, explains author Richard Rhodes during an interview on CBS, she devoted a room to drafting her designs for frequency-hopping.[17]Lamarr and Antheil discussed the fact that radio-controlled torpedoes, while important in the naval war, could easily be jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, causing the torpedo to go off course.[18] Lamarr had learned something about torpedoes during her marriage to Mandl. Lamarr and Antheil developed the idea of using frequency hopping to avoid jamming. This was achieved by using a piano roll to unpredictably change the signal sent between a
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