Hedy Lamarr Austrian Born Jewish woman. Founder and inventor of WiFi, GPS and Blue Tooth Technology.
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00:00Hedy Lamarr Austrian born Jewish woman, founder and inventor of Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth technology.
00:12Why America and Russia became powerful nations today is because of the Jewish people.
00:18Hitler used Jewish minds to run the Second World War, according to the new emigration
00:24legislation of USSR, as of the 1st of July 1991, Jews leaving for Israel were stripped
00:32of their Soviet citizenship.
00:34Every Jew was ordered to leave USSR for Israel.
00:38Well five months later, December 26th 1991, USSR collapse.
00:44So only United States was the home of the Jewish people.
00:48Today United States is unbeatable, the secret lies with the Jewish people.
00:54Jewish inventors have made significant contributions across various fields.
00:59Here are a few notable examples.
01:02Larry Page and Sergey Brin, these two Jewish men co-founded Google, which revolutionized
01:08internet search and information retrieval.
01:12Israeli innovations, Israel has produced numerous inventions, including drip irrigation, the
01:18cherry tomato, and the disk on key USB flash drive.
01:23Henry Kissinger German born Jewish scientist and inventor of micro-biochips born 1923-2023
01:32was an influential American diplomat and political scientist.
01:37Born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing
01:44Nazi persecution.
01:46His impact on US foreign policy was significant during the administrations of Presidents Richard
01:52Nixon and Gerald Ford.
01:54These inventors have shaped our world in remarkable ways.
01:59One of the less recognized inventor is Hedy Lamarr born 9th November 1914, Vienna, Austria
02:06died 19th January 2000, Castlebury, Florida, frequency hopping named, an extraordinary
02:14new communication system.
02:16Most people know Hedy Lamarr as a top actress during Hollywood's golden era.
02:22She is less well known as a brilliant inventor.
02:25One of her inventions with composer George Arndt Heil was a forerunner to today's Wi-Fi,
02:31Bluetooth and GPS technologies and has led many to dub Lamarr the mother of Wi-Fi.
02:38The National Women's History Museum describes their invention as an extraordinary new communication
02:44system used with the intention of guiding torpedoes to their targets in war.
02:50The system involved the use of frequency hopping amongst radio waves with both transmitter
02:56and receiver hopping to new frequencies together.
03:00Doing so prevented the interception of the radio waves thereby allowing the torpedo to
03:05find its intended target.
03:08Born in Austria in 1914, Hedy Lamarr displayed an innate curiosity and intelligence from
03:15a young age.
03:16Her passion for science and technology would eventually intertwine with her illustrious
03:21acting career leading to groundbreaking discoveries.
03:26Despite facing numerous obstacles as a woman in a male-dominated industry, Lamarr's innovative
03:32spirit prevailed leaving an indelible mark on the world of technology.
03:38Hedy Lamarr's inventions, one of Lamarr's most remarkable inventions was a communication
03:43system developed alongside composer George Arndt Heil.
03:48Their invention aimed to guide torpedoes during warfare by utilising frequency hopping between
03:54radio waves.
03:56This ingenious technique involved both the transmitter and receiver rapidly switching
04:01frequencies preventing the interception of signals and enabling the torpedo to reach
04:07its intended target undetected.
04:10Although the invention was initially deemed too advanced for implementation during World
04:15War II, its concepts laid the groundwork for modern wireless technologies.
04:21Lamarr's frequency hopping invention, patented in 1942, remained relatively unknown until
04:29the 1960s when it gained recognition for its significant contributions to the field
04:34of telecommunications.
04:36Fast forward to the present day and we can see the impact of Lamarr's work in the ubiquitous
04:41presence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS technologies in our daily lives.
04:48Lamarr's inventive genius truly makes her the mother of Wi-Fi.
04:53Since Lamarr's invention, Wi-Fi technology has grown in leaps and bounds, there is now
04:58Wi-Fi mesh technology and Wi-Fi versions have kept evolving, like Wi-Fi 7, which has been
05:05recently.
05:06Meanwhile, Lamarr's patent expired before she ever saw a penny from it.
05:12While she continued to accumulate credits in films until 1958, her inventive genius
05:18was yet to be recognised by the public.
05:21It wasn't until Lamarr's later years that she received any awards for her invention.
05:27The Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly awarded Lamarr and Aunt Heil with their Pioneer
05:33Award in 1997.
05:36Lamarr also became the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's Bowlby Nass Spirit
05:42of Achievement Award.
05:44The Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly awarded Lamarr and Aunt Heil with their Pioneer
05:50Award in 1997.
05:53Lamarr also became the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's Bowlby Nass Spirit
05:59of Achievement Award, although she died in 2000.
06:03Lamarr was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the development of her frequency
06:09hopping technology in 2014.
06:12Such achievement has led Lamarr to be dubbed the mother of Wi-Fi and other wireless communications
06:18like GPS and Bluetooth.
06:21Thank you for watching.