Person who invented wifi

Nov 10, , am EST. Nov 3, , am EST. Sep 9, , pm EDT. Jun 30, , pm EDT. Jun 21, , am EDT. Edit Story. Feb 28, , pm EST. Shivaune Field writes about founders, disruption and leadership. Hedy Lamarr. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Shivaune Field. Hedy was an Austrian actress who made herself infamous at the age of 17 by simulating an orgasm on screen in the arthouse film Ekstase.

On screen! An Orgasm! In ! What is surprising, though, is how long that film marked her as a scandal. For this film I asked him what the joke was about and if he felt guilty about making her name a punchline -- considering she sued him for the offence and they settled out of court. The real Hedy Lamarr was a genius whose work changed our daily lives.

In our film Bombshell Hedy Lamarr finally gets to tell the whole story in her own words. She can do that because one journalist, named Fleming Meeks, tracked her down in and asked her about her inventions. It took decades for Lamarr to receive any recognition for her incredible invention. Finally, in , she was honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but, Dean said, it might have been too late for Lamarr to appreciate the standing ovation she received over 50 late.

She sent a recording of herself thanking them. During her heyday, Lamarr was considered the most beautiful woman in the world. She was a famous Hollywood star who would finish performing on set with Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and Spencer Tracy, and then go back to her trailer and work on her inventions.

Like many famous stars of her day, she had a relationship with aerospace pioneer Howard Hughes. So I bought a book of fish, and I bought a book of birds, and then used the fastest bird, connected it with the fastest fish. It gained more traction when her obituaries were published in Since then the news has spread and she has become an icon of women in science — in comic books, plays and even that modern monument, a Google Doodle. All the time that Lamarr was making big films in Hollywood and missing out on even more, including Casablanca and Gaslight the press kept writing about her love life six marriages and six divorces , and her sultry, kittenish looks.

Anything but her invention — despite the fact that it had actually been made public in Hedy Lamarr.