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	Female Inventors: Hedy Lamarr
		Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna in 1914 as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.
		Hedy Lamarr's co-inventor, George Antheil, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1900.
		Lamarr and Antheil worked on the idea for several months and then, in December 1940, sent a description of it to the National Inventors Council, which had been launched with much fanfare earlier in the year as a gatherer of novel ideas and inventions from the general public.
	www.inventions.org /culture/female/lamarr.html (1254 words)

	Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria and died in Altamonte Springs, Florida (near Orlando, Orange County, Florida).
		Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but she was told that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds.
		Lamarr later sued the publisher claiming that many of the anecdotes in the book were fabricated by the ghost writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hedy_Lamarr (1322 words)

	Hedy Lamarr Doren Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator.
		Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria and died in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
		Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam.
	www.netkushi.com /articles/hedy-lamarr.php (922 words)

	BluetoothNews: Cover Story
		Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna on November 9, 1914 as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.
		While Hedy Mandl received the perks of being a member of the social elite of Vienna, she was not content to just be the “show piece” of her domineering husband.
		Hedy thought about this problem and felt that if the problems of radio guidance could be solved, the resulting improvement in the accuracy of torpedoes could be a decisive advantage in the war.
	www.bluetoothnews.com /hedy_lamarr_story.htm (1890 words)

	Hedy Lamarr
		Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria, in November 1915, but some say she was born in 1913 because she never revealed her real age.
		Hedy Lamarr is probably known more for her good looks and talented acting skills, but she was also a very accomplished inventor.
		Hedy must not have believed that that was bad enough, though, because in 1991 she was again caught for shoplifting, but the charges were dropped.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /99_00/PK/hl.htm (1592 words)

	CNN - Golden-age glamour girl Hedy Lamarr dies - January 19, 2000
		ORLANDO, Florida -- Actress Hedy Lamarr, one of the most glamorous stars of Hollywood's golden era in the 1930s and '40s, was found dead in her home Wednesday by friends, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said.
		Far from the airhead she feared she'd be pigeonholed as, Lamarr was also an inventor, who while married to Mandl developed an idea for a radio signaling device that would reduce the danger of detection or jamming.
		Lamarr is a "huge part of the history of this industry," Proxim Inc. Chief Executive David C. King told The Wall Street Journal in 1997.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/19/obit.lamarr.02 (955 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Hedy Lamarr Double Feature
		When she wasn't dramatically escaping from Nazis or inventing the technology that eventually led to cell phones and wireless networking, Hedy Lamarr was the quintessential movie star, one of the most popular and glamorous Hollywood actresses of the 1930s and '40s.
		Hedy seems to be more famous these days as the co-inventor of spread-spectrum technology than as a movie star.
		Hedy's fans will be pleased, then, that VCI Home Video (under the Acme DVD Works label) has released two of her 1940s films as a Hedy Lamarr Double Feature.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/hedylamarr.php (1573 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Actress Hedy Lamarr dies
		Actress Hedy Lamarr, who appeared in several Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1950s, has died at her home in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 86.
		Hedy Lamarr's looks were rivalled by her intellect.
		Hedy Lamarr was married and divorced six times and had two children, and one adoptive son.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/611007.stm (436 words)

	Hedy Lamarr Videos, Books, Memorabilia
		Lamarr, in another of her best-known roles, plays the part of the alluring Tondelayo who seduces pretty much everyone at a British plantation post in Africa.
		Hedy Lamarr is on fire as Delilah, Mature holds his own as a frustrated Samson.
		Lamarr is unbelievably sexy, and she glides through the powerless men in the movie in many alluring halter tops, skirts and other weapons.
	www.clevernet.net /hedylamarr/shop.html (478 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Hedy Lamarr - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That Lamarr wasn't much of an actress was compensated with several scenes in which she was required to merely stand around silently and look beautiful (she would later downgrade these performances, equating sex appeal with "looking stupid").
		The prudish Louis B. Mayer was willing to forgive Lamarr the "indiscretion" of Extase by signing her to a long MGM contract in 1939.
		In 1990, Lamarr made an unexpected return before the cameras in the obscure low-budget Hollywood satire Instant Karma, in which she was typecast in the role of Movie Goddess.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/35426/bio.jhtml (400 words)

	Hedy Lamarr >> German-Hollywood Connection
		Hedy Lamarr got her marquee name from MGM's Louis B. Mayer, in remembrance of the beautiful silent-film star Barbara La Marr (born Rheatha Watson in 1896), who had died of a drug overdose in 1926.
		Her new name was so unfamiliar to her that Lamarr misspelled it when she first arrived in Hollywood in 1937 and signed the hotel register at the famous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard (“Bills to be sent to Louis B. Mayer at MGM.”).
		Hedy Lamarr shares the title to a 1942 patent, under her then legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey, for a “secret communication system” intended for use as a radio guidance device for US Navy torpedoes.
	www.germanhollywood.com /lamarr.html (1003 words)

	Hedy Lamarr Biography \| World of Invention
		Though Hedy Lamarr is best known for her work as a Hollywood acting star of the 1930s and 1940s, she also devised a radio technology that was ahead of its time and will continue to play a role in the development of telecommunications: frequency shifting.
		Though Lamarr had other invention ideas--including one where a cube could be dropped into water to make a soda drink--none of them came to complete fruition.
		Lamarr, now retired after appearing in her last film in 1958, was finally recognized for her contribution by an Electric Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award for technological innovation in March 1997.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/hedy-lamarr-woi (509 words)

	Hedy Lamarr @ Filmbug
		Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 - January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator.
		Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System".
		The patent was little-known until recently because Lamarr applied for it under her married name of Hedy Keisler Markey.
	www.filmbug.com /db/2428 (379 words)

	Lamarr, Hedy (1913—) Biography \| sjpc_03_package.xml
		Austrian actress of the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr was frequently called the most beautiful woman in motion pictures.
		Hedy Lamarr followed up her debut with appearances in several more successful films, including Ziegfield Girl (1941) and White Cargo (1942).
		Although she was not a movie star for long, Hedy Lamarr was an important star at an important time in history.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lamarr-hedy-1913-sjpc-03 (570 words)

	The Hedy Lamarr Home Page- Celebrate Her Life! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Actress Hedy Lamarr was one of the most glamorous stars of Hollywood's golden era in the 1930s and '40s.
		Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria to the daughter of a prominent banker.
		Hedy was well known for her exotic, dark-haired beauty, which she shared with a passion throughout her silver screen stardom.
	www.clevernet.net /hedylamarr (105 words)

	Denny Jackson's Hedy Lamarr Page
		Hedwig, who obviously became Hedy, had a rather calm childhood, but it was cinema that fascinated her.
		In 1932, Hedy appeared in a German film called EXTASY and had made the gutsy move to be nude.
		Hedy soon married Fritz Mandl, who was a munitions manufactuer and a Nazi sympathizer.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/lamarr.html (643 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Hedy Lamarr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood star of the 30s and 40s, died January 19, 1999 at the age of 86.
		Born Hedwig Eva Marie Kiesler, she was the daughter of a wealthy Vienna banker and pianist.
		Lamarr remembered her first husband, Mandl, talking about the Nazis wanting to develop a sophisticated radio controlled torpedo.
	obits.com /lamarrhedy.html (672 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Silver Screen actress Hedy Lamarr (born 1914) enjoyed one of the more memorable careers in Hollywood.
		On June 10, 1941, Lamarr and composer George Antheil received Patent No. 2,292,387 for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful for submarines.
		Lamarr has received several awards for her invention, including the 1997 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her contributions to the field of spread-spectrum technology.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/lamarr.html (214 words)

	Hedy Lamarr Films >> German-Hollywood Connection
		O.F.") is one of three films Lamarr made in 1931, the first year of her film career.
		Hedy joins fellow Austrians Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre, as well as Sydney Greenstreet in this pale imitation of Casablanca set in Lisbon.
		Hedy tries to leave Havana and her past behind her.
	www.germanhollywood.com /lamarr_2.html (619 words)

	Hedy Lamarr - Moviefone
		The daughter of a Vienesse banker, Hedy Lamarr began her acting career at 16 under the tutelage of German impresario Max Reinhardt.
		He hired her and changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, the surname in homage to a famously...
		Hedy Lamarr - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Hedy Lamarr Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/hedy-lamarr/40114/main (125 words)

	A Tribute to Hedy Lamarr
		None other than Hedy Lamarr, made famous by her starring role in Ecstasy, a very x-rated movie, filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1933.
		Hedy Lamarr invented in 1940 and patented in 1941, under her married name of “H. Markey”, US Patent number 2292387, granted in Aug. 1, 1942, “Secret Communication System”, filed June 10, 1941.
		Belatedly, Hedy Lamarr deserves credit for her stroke of pure genius in inventing the spread-spectrum concept in one evening, out of thin air!
	www.rism.com /atribute.htm (2859 words)

	Hedy Lamarr
		Lamarr was frequently quoted as saying, "Any girl can be glamorous.
		All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." She may have played that role on the silver screen, but when it came to real life, Hedy proved that brainpower was everything.
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	www.mutoworld.com /Lamarr.htm (397 words)

	Actor Profile
		In 1932, Hedy appeared in a German film called ECSTASY and made the gutsy choice to be the first actress to appear nude in a major motion picture.
		Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.
		Hedy Lamarr is a legend of cinema, and deservedly so.
	www.tccandler.com /talent_file_hedy_lamarr.htm (678 words)

	Did you know about Hedy Lamarr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the transistor did become available the Navy used the idea in secure military communications and when transistors became really cheap the idea was used in cellular phone technology.
		By the time the Navy used the idea, the original patent had expired and Lamarr and Antheil never received any royalty payments for their idea.
		In 1997 she was honored with an award at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference for "blazing new trails on the electronic frontier." Hedy Lamarr died on January 19, 2000.
	www.astr.ua.edu /4000WS/didyouknow.1.html (289 words)

	Hedy Lamarr: Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lamarr and Anthiel received a patent in 1941, but the enormous significance of their invention was not realized until decades later.
		As is the case with many of the famous women inventors, Lamarr received very little recognition of her innovative talent at the time, but recently she has been showered with praise for her groundbreaking invention.
		Proving she was much more than just another pretty face, Lamarr shattered stereotypes and earned a place among the 20th century’s most important women inventors.
	www.women-inventors.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Hedy-Lammar.asp (316 words)

	Hedy Lamarr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001443 (295 words)

	Lamarr, Hedy L People Arts
		- Celebrating the life of actress Hedy Lamarr.
		- A photo of the Beverly Hills home formerly owned by actress Hedy Lamarr.
		- A tribute to Hedy Lamarr and her invention of spread spectrum technology.
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