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Everything Everywhere Daily

Hedy Lamarr

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hedy Lamarr was one of the most beautiful women in the world. She was a Hollywood star who appeared in films with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. But she was much more than just a pretty face. She was also an inventor who created one of the technologies which have helped develop the modern world. The fruits of her labor can be found in Bluetooth and wifi today. Learn more about Heddy Lamarr and her invention which helped shape the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Eddie Lamar was one of the most beautiful women in the world.

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She was a Hollywood star who appeared in films with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.

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But she was much more than just a pretty face.

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She was also an inventor who created one of the technologies which has helped develop the modern world.

0:15.0

The fruits of her labors can be found in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices today, perhaps in your pocket.

0:21.0

Learn more about Heddie Lamar and the invention which helps shape the world

0:25.0

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Scottyfest. The world is slowly starting to open up again,

0:45.0

and that means you might be going to more places very soon.

0:48.0

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0:54.8

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0:59.2

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1:05.9

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1:08.6

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1:17.8

Petty Lamar was born Hedwig Ava Maria Kaisler in Vienna, Austria in September of

1:25.8

1916. She was born to an upper-class family. Her mother was a concert pianist and her

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father was a director at a bank. Both her parents were

1:34.1

ethnically Jewish but her mother had converted to Catholicism and raised her

1:37.7

daughter as such. She showed interest as a child in acting and at the age of

1:41.7

12 she won a local beauty contest.

1:43.8

At her private school she studied ballet and piano.

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However she also had an interest in science and technology which was cultivated

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