Actually, I think I read (on some web page a few months back
that she hooked up with the actual inventor of the
technology, but ended up with the Patent (or something
like that.)  Something about the DVORAK keyboard and a
Navy study and the so-called claims surrounding it rings
a  bell...  [duck!]

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Frank [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: A death in the family
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> Hedy Lamarr?  and George "Ballet mecanique" Antheil?
> Inventors of spread-spectrum technology?
>
> Wow.  I seem to learn something new every day.  Thanks, Wirt.
>
>
> Art Frank
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> >>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> 01/19 11:26 AM >>>
> It was just announced today that the co-inventor of spread-spectrum
> technology died today, or perhaps yesterday, at the age of
> 86. The patent for
> spread-spectrum radio transmissions was issued in 1942 and
> was devised as a
> method of making radio signals both unjammable and
> potentially undetectable.
>
> Hedy Lamarr, once described as one of the world's most
> beautiful women, was
> the inventor of spread-spectrum technology and received the
> patent for the
> process in 1942, along with a good friend, musical composer
> George Antheil.
> She found dead at her home in Orlando today.
>
> Although the technique was never used in World War II, it has become
> extremely common since then.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
>