[2/2] Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood star and "mother" of Wi-Fi

2023-04-03T13:49:57.311Z

Listen to the rest of the story about the life of Hedy Lamarr, a genius with the face of a femme fatale. After her disastrous marriage to Friedrich Mandl, an arms dealer whose clients were Mussolini and Hitler, she fled to the United States. She joined MGM studios and played exotic beauty roles in several films. But Hedy Lamarr is not only a fatal beauty, she also possesses superior intelligence and a passion for invention. With the complicity of George Antheil, an anti-fascist pianist, the idea of an invention was born to make torpedoes undetectable to the enemy during the Second World War. This is the principle of signal transmissions that will be the prelude to the development ... GPS and Wi-Fi! Historian Virginie Girod explains how this self-taught woman broke free from stereotypes to make possible one of history's best-known inventions. Find Virginie Girod in Madame Figaro on newsstands on February 24 with an unpublished story. https://madame.lefigaro.frSujets covered: Hedy Lamarr - Cinema - Hollywood - Femme fatale - Actress - Inventor - Science - GPS - ancestor of Wi-Fi - World War II - American dream - Los Angeles - women's stories