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Hedy Lamarr, d'art name Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler di


invented a secret communication system of radio control of torpedoes which is the basis of "spread spectrum"

Hedy Lamarr was first made famous by the movie naked, in the Austrian film Ecstasy, which she played in 1932 at age 19. But it is for this reason that from August l 'actress, who later became a Hollywood superstar, a figure in the Museum of Women and was awarded by the Istituto d' electrical engineering from Washington. The story, not just the female, pays tribute to the first anniversary of the massacres of the Twin Towers in Manhattan because no diva, but because a scientist, inventor or better. In fact, 1942, exactly sixty years 'ago, Hedy Lamarr el' then her partner, the composer George Antheil, patented a system of radio control torpedoes which is the basis of "spread spectrum" technology communication of some mobile phones and military satellites. They did it to help their adopted country against the Nazis. In the thirties and forties, the story of Hedy Lamarr, considered the greatest beauty of her time, keen on the whole world. L 'actress, born and raised in Vienna, she married Fritz Mandl, an Austrian arms manufacturer great friend of Hitler and Mussolini, from which he went with her repeatedly. The persecution of Jews led her to leave her husband el 'Austria, and take refuge first in England then the United States. German arms expert at the outbreak of World War II began Hedy Lamarr available to the Pentagon. One evening, listening to George Antheil to the plan, conceived the 'idea of \u200b\u200bestablishing an American torpedo boat radio control system indecipherable to the enemy. Instead of signals on a 'single frequency, easy to catch and block, as is normal, "said the composer, you would always use different frequencies, which can not be neutralized, such as notes of a song. George Antheil built a rudimentary radio, called "Secret Communication System ', Pentagon and patented it on their behalf in 1942. 'S unit was too bulky, and it was adopted by the Navy. But in 1957 a hi-tech, electronic Sylvania, put it in the new form of transistor: the 'invention' s actress and the composer was used for the first time in naval blockade of Cuba in 1962. The award to the memory of Hedy Lamarr, who died in 2000, almost ninety years, the 'Institute of Electronic Engineering defines the patent "an important contribution to different modern technologies, from radar to' Internet '. L 'actress not charge a penny, but he did not regret: "My goal," he declared, "was to allow American torpedoes to sink the German ships with impunity. Not reached, but the patent has proved valuable both in the same war and in peace. " The incident was never publicized, the news was more concerned with their husbands and love Hedi Lamarr, who included it among the other Charlie Chaplin and the writer Eric Maria Remarque. L 'actress left the movies in the fifties, and gradually was forgotten. It took sixty years' to find out that Hedy Lamarr, aka Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, was more than just a beautiful, young body that he swam naked in a lake: a brave woman, independent, intelligent, capable of extraordinary insights.