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Jewish Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood star who invented the basic WiFi system
2024-01-20 23:50:39 / JETË
She was born in Austria, found refuge in Los Angeles, lived a glamorous life in the Hollywood studios and left behind a legacy of inestimable value.
Hedy Lamarr, who passed away in 2000, was born in Vienna and her real name is Hedwig Eva Kiesler.
The only child of a wealthy family brought Lamrr to the attention of her banker father, Emil, a modern-day Ukrainian Jew (born in Lemberg, now Lviv), who showed her how the world works for everyone, not just women.
They often went for walks, where her father would show her all kinds of machines, explaining how they worked.
Hedy began to become curious, studying her objects to see what was inside and how they worked, while at the same time taking up the classical studies that girls of wealthy families did at the time, ballet and piano.
At the age of 12, she had already won a beauty pageant at a local pageant, but what interested her was acting, so she began secretly taking lessons from her mother.
At the age of 19, she met an Austrian arms dealer who would play a key role in her life.
They married in 1933 and she immediately realized that her creativity had been stifled by him.
"He was the absolute monarch in this relationship. I was like a doll. I was like a work of art that needed to be preserved and imprisoned."
One of the things that Lamarr could not stand at all was her husband's professional and friendly relations with the Nazi party.
Four years after her martyrdom, she managed to escape first to Paris and then to London.
From her short career in Central Europe she took part in the pioneering film for the time Ecstasy, becoming the first woman to play a role with nudity scenes and simulate an orgasm in the history of cinema.
In Old Albion she met the head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, Louis B. Mayer, who immediately recognized her potential.
Lamarr left for the US and signed her first contract for the then not insignificant sum of $500 a week.
Meanwhile, Mayer had convinced her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr so that the public would not associate her with her role in the movie Ecstasy.
Soon after she set foot in Hollywood, Mayer began promoting her as "the most beautiful woman in the world."
Her career got off to a strong start, and Mayer expected Lamarr to become a new Greta Garbo.
But at the same time, Lamarr loved technology and her thoughts about science could not be stopped.
Pilot Howard Hughes, whom she met at a party, gave her the first set of tools, so she began to work on the construction of various objects.
Through Hughes, she visited aircraft manufacturing plants and began to acquire other valuable knowledge that would later be very useful to her.
Hughes was the first to realize that Hedy was a genius when she showed him a design of her own for building an airplane wing.
While her career continued with exotic femme fatale roles, Lamarr was very involved in her hobbies.
In 1940, as soon as the Second World War broke out, she met the musician George Antheil, with whom she shared the same love for innovation.
According to him, Lamarr had said that he didn't feel good sitting in Hollywood and making a lot of money while there was a lot of bad things going on in the world.
So the two teamed up to create a frequency system through which users could detect enemy missiles and prevent strikes, something very important to the progress of a war, as Nazi Germany made every effort to exclude the Allies from its frequencies. radio.
This system, discovered by Lamarr, involved frequency hopping between radio waves, and although she obtained a patent for it, the US military did not want to use it.
Lamarr insisted on helping her new homeland, raising money to continue the fight against fascism.
Unfortunately, her patent expired after a few years, and in the meantime neither she nor Antheil had received anything from its exploitation.
But behind Lamarr's invention that few people know about is WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.
Her invention was the basis for the creation of all these communication systems, without which today our life would be completely different.
Lamarr's personal life
Her personal life was very miserable.
She had three children from her six marriages.
She didn't speak to her eldest son, James, for decades after he left home for another family.
After her final divorce in 1965, Lamarr began to withdraw from the performing arts until 1981, when she moved permanently to Florida.
Until she passed away due to a heart problem in January 2000, she spent her time mostly indoors, talking on the phone, even for six to seven hours a day.
It was unfortunate that she didn't live a little longer, to see that thanks to her, today, through WiFi, we can not only talk on the phone, but we can do almost everything, and above all, it has made our lives easier./ Alfarpess.al
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