Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Hedy Lamarr: The Hollywood Goddess Who Gave Us WiFi" video.

  1. Hedy Lamarr is mostly myth invented by actress Susan Sarandon. For the real woman mathematical genius of WW2, do a bio on Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who cracked hundreds of ciphers during her career as America’s first female cryptanalyst, successfully breaking up a Nazi spy ring across South America during the 1940s. Hedy Lamarr is only a WOKE Hollywood propaganda piece, Friedman is the real deal.
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  2. The patent was never used in WW2 nor later, and others, like Nikola Tesla asserted the same idea years before, so this story is all BS. Should have gotten into her convictions for shoplifting, much more interesting story.
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  3.  @noth606  Yes, the patent was never used in WW2 or later, and Tesla asserted the same idea years before, so this story is all BS.
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  4.  @wildbill47304  The patent had expired, I believe, and while the Navy was aware of the patent, which was not written by her, but a 3rd party, they did not use it in the action you reference. I have nothing against Lamar, just the motivation of those attempting to create a myth around her. Why? Why inflate this far beyond its substance or reality, if not for the social and pollical context of 3rd wave feminism. The more substantial contribution of women in WWII were the WASPs.
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  5.  @wildbill47304  A mural of Hedy Lamarr was painted on the side of a business by my city. It's expressed purpose was to celebrate women in "science" and motivate little girls to get into STEM courses. The myth of her as a scientist was first perpetrated in a play "Hedy", then the documentary "Bombshell" was made. It's almost all myth, and modern WIFI doesn't even use frequency hopping. The patent was not for the idea of "frequency hopping" but the mechanism, which was based on "piano rolls". Marconi, in 1899, talked about "frequency-selective reception" to minimize interference, and in a patent filed in 1900 by Nikola Tesla. A form of selective frequency was used in both WWI and WW2. Susan Sarandon is party responsible for this myth making after she did research on Hedy for a part. This is a Full Woke Hollywood invention. Why did she never invent anything else?
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  6.  @wildbill47304  Here's the real genius woman hero of WW2: Elizebeth Smith Friedman
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