Hedy Lamarr was often referred to as “The most beautiful face in Hollywood” during the so-called Golden Age of the cinema. She starred in dozens of films, and on the side she helped devise, invent and patent a method of radio wave transmission that would aid in the guidance of radio-guided torpedoes. Her “frequency hopping” concept is still the basis for many modern technologies, likely even at use in that fancy mobile phone of yours.
