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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty." - Phil Ochs
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i would like to share this sequence of events

  1. Viennese Jewish actress Hedy Lamarr marries ethnically Jewish Austrofascist arms dealer (and purported party-thrower for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and then-biffles with Hermann Göring), Friedrich Mandl, who forces her to convert to Catholicism and have a Catholic wedding
  2. Turns out he’s a controlling fuck (who was surprised) who hated that she simulated a climax on screen and kept her from her acting career so she fled and made a career in Hollywood, but as wartime approached she felt guilty for having a luxurious career as the state of the world became what it was, and wanted to do something about it
  3. She comes into contact with American-born avant-garde composer, pianist and female endocrinology enthusiast George Antheil, of German heritage, because she wants suggestions for bigger tits, but they end up talking about torpedoes instead
  4. The two of them invent a weaponized player piano, using a mechanism from one of Antheil’s avant-garde compositions and the knowledge Lamarr gained from her shitty marriage to a fascist arms dealer, which used frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology (which gave way to WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth) to encrypt torpedo torpedo attack signals by use of a piano roll, where all 88 keys matched a different frequency making it too difficult to jumble and send torpedoes off course
  5. I reiterate, a conversation about wanting bigger tits led to the conceptualization of a torpedo encrypter controlled by a piano meant to defeat the Nazis
  6. It got patented in 1942 but the US Navy was too hesitant to use technology from outside the military so it didn’t get used
  7. Hedy instead sold kisses and a lunch even went for $4.5 million, for war bonds, and she dubbed herself “just a plain gold-digger for Uncle Sam”
  8. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened, after which the patent had already expired, and the US Navy used her technology
  9. She only ever got any recognition in 1997 for this, three years before her death. Her ashes are scattered in the Vienna Woods.

I know there are a ton of “all hail our mother of wifi Hedy Lamarr” posts out there but I don’t know if any of them quite capture the beautiful absurdity of how this genius ended up doing what she did, so

All Hail our Mother of Wifi Hedy Lamarr

GIF by assyrianjalebi

and the scene that pissed off her fascist husband, may we all make fascists as uncomfortable as possible

#hedy lamarr#science#technology#invention#music#history#hedwig eva maria kiesler#jewish history
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paristexaz

Currently reading Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr

Learned that Hedy overdosed of thyroid compound and had a seizure at the age of 15

Was raped by the age of 14 and suffered from anxiety ever since (the banana “joke” with Spencer Tracy had her relive it and caused her to cry hysterically)

Had an abusive husband at a young age

And according to the author, in a interview Hedy might have been bisexual but probably never “acted” on it, her closest female //friends// were Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy and Ann Sothern.

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Hedy Lamarr (via niqaabista)

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