You need to thank Hedy Lamarr if you’re reading this article on your smartphone while connected to Wi-Fi. Lamarr’s most important invention crafted the way for things we use every day like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and cell phones. It’s registered in the US under her name with the number 2,292,387, and it changed the course of history for technology.
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Hedy Lamarr’s complex personality is a combination of her science and sensuality. Renowned for her unmatched beauty, Lamarr surprised everyone by seamlessly transitioning from impressing audiences with her attractiveness to actively engaging in discussions about scientific concepts. Her character personifies the contrast between these two extremes, i.e. impressing the spectators with her beauty while also exploring wireless technology, frequency, and signal.
Hedy Lamarr was the first to play orgasm on screen
Lamarr entered film history at an early age, thus her impact goes beyond her outward beauty. She played a female orgasm on screen for the first time in the 1933 film “Ecstasy,” at the very young age of 18. After this Western media criticized the ground-breaking sequence, labeling the film as “indecent” and “morally dangerous,” authorities prohibited and censored it in a previous era; among those who opposed its release were the Pope and Hitler.
Despite so many challenges, Lamarr’s influence in the fields of science and film is still commendable.
Though praised as the ‘World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ and enjoying the glamour of Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr’s actual love was science, where she studied formulas, experiments, and the secrets of the natural world. Lamarr’s passion for creativity and ingenuity fueled her post-filming hours, even beyond the glitter of the silver screen. Inspired by an unquenchable curiosity, she would lose herself in the solution of scientific puzzles throughout these times.
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