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American Innovations

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Education For Kids, History, Steven Johnson, Kids & Family, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Glamour. Hollywood. Drama. Although she was known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” Actress Hedy Lamarr’s greatest life work was far from the silver screen. At the height of her film career, and in the midst of a world war, Hedy invented the basis for all modern wireless communications: signal hopping.

Part of a special series with Smithsonian Magazine highlighting the lives of women inventors to celebrate Women’s History Month. Head over to Smithsonian.com/Wondery to go deeper, or find us on Twitter @InnovationsPod.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:16.6	It's the fall of 1940 in Hollywood, an avant-garde musician, George Antiole, wakes up with
0:23.3	a start.
0:24.8	He rubs his eyes and realizes the reason he's been roused from his sleep.
0:29.0	The phone is ringing off the hook.
0:31.8	He's not particularly surprised.
0:40.8	This is hardly the first time Antiole's new friend, Hedi Lamar, has called him late at
0:45.4	night with an idea.
0:47.3	Hedi is as bright as she is impatient.
0:50.0	George, George, I think I-
0:52.0	Hedi, it's 4 in the morning.
0:54.0	As he to please stop doing this.
0:55.9	Can't wait until tomorrow?
0:57.2	It can't.
0:58.2	Last night when we were playing piano together, switching back and forth like always, remember
1:02.0	how I said we're talking to each other and we're changing all the time.
1:06.0	I can't stop thinking about it.
1:10.7	Antiole thinks back to last night.
1:13.2	He and Hedi were playing piano together, like they usually did after dinner when Hedi had
1:17.2	him over.
1:18.2	They were both skilled enough to anticipate each other's moves and stay on track together.
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