Insights Into Things Podcasts

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ydayj-1b28a2d In this episode we explore Hedy Lamarr’s journey from Hollywood stardom to wartime inventor. Faced with radio-controlled weapons vulnerable to jamming, Lamarr and George Antheil patented a synchronized frequency-hopping system in 1941 designed to make signals harder to detect and disrupt. The episode separates myth from fact: their patent was a real early contribution…