{"id":2735,"date":"2019-10-31T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corvum.io\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2024-10-09T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:31:30","slug":"corvum-staff-feature-hero-spotlight-cate-hedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corvum.io\/ca\/2019\/10\/31\/corvum-staff-feature-hero-spotlight-cate-hedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvum Staff Feature + Hero Spotlight: Cate + Hedy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cate is our peppy Marketing & Events Manager, Copywriter, and UI Tester. You can read her bio\u00a0here<\/u><\/a>! Her pick for Corvum\u2019s hero spotlight is the long misunderstood, but ever-driven inventor and actress Hedy Lamarr.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brains of people are more interesting than the looks I think,\u201d said Lamarr towards the end of her life. The images of Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on Lamarr\u2019s \u201clooks\u201d. As cool as that is, however, it is her creativity, genius and love of tinkering that really sparkles here. Lamarr co-created a covert communication system (radio guidance via frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology) which helped to defeat the Nazis in WWII. Yet for most of her life, she, nor anyone else, for that matter \u2013 were even aware that her patent had been utilized at all. Her technology also went on to become the basis for modern day GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Not too shabby!<\/p>\n

Lamarr spent most of her life being seen merely as a glamorous Hollywood puppet, but she defied those who would dismiss her and invented cool things anyway. Dr. Simon Nyeck said that \u201c\u2026 historically, women have been positioned in the media within an antiquated, one-dimensional framework created from a male perspective\u2026 multi-faceted women like Lamarr are often only valued for their physicality, and not for their ability to think, invent or create.\u201d<\/p>\n

Primarily self-taught Lamarr invented because it was her passion, she saw it as a \u201chobby\u201d. \u201cInventions are easy for me to do,\u2019 LaMarr says in the documentary \u2018Bombshell.\u2019 \u201cI don\u2019t have to work on ideas, they come naturally.\u201d It is a tragedy that Lamarr was never properly credited nor compensated for her amazing achievements. She should truly be respected and admired \u2013 she loved to create things that would be helpful to people, not simply to bask in ego-based glory.<\/p>\n

Her inventions came to be in a fascinating way. The above-mentioned was inspired by something dear to Cate\u2019s heart, music. Lamarr and her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil synchronized \u201ca miniaturized\u00a0player-piano<\/u><\/a>\u00a0mechanism with radio signals\u201d that could not be tracked or jammed.<\/p>\n

In 2014 \u2013 fourteen years after Lamarr passed away \u2013 she and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. They had previously also received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award in 1997.<\/p>\n

Shivaune Field wrote in Forbes: \u201cto this day, neither LaMarr nor her estate have seen a cent from the multi-billion-dollar industry her idea paved the way for, even though the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged her frequency-hopping patent and contribution to technology\u201d.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Forbes<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Lunenburd Doc Fest \/ Bombshell<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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