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1942 (Wired): Hedy Lamarr, once described by German actor-director Max Reinhardt as "the most beautiful woman in Europe," receives a U.S. patent for a frequency-hopping device designed to guide radio-controlled torpedoes while making them more difficult to detect in the water. Holding the patent with her is George Antheil.
It's the incongruity of the patent holders with their invention, as much as the invention itself, that is remarkable. Continued
Photo: hedylamarr.org
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