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12. Hedy Lamarr: More Than Just Good Looks

So it’s not as if women weren’t inventors or as good looking as Hedy Lamarr before, it’s just that there’s something about her onscreen sass and off-screen intelligence that actually made men feel a little threatened by her sheer magnitude.

She started out her life as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, and became an Austrian actress, even starring in a scandalous film, Ecstasy, in which she is shown swimming and running naked, and with a close-up of her face in the throes of orgasm. It was rather controversial at the time!

She later escaped her dominating husband and came to America where she changed her named to Hedy Lamarr, it was then that she and a friend, composer George Antheil, developed a radio system from Allied torpedoes – the basis of all Wi-Fi, CDMA, and Bluetooth technology. The awesome thing also being, Hedy had no formal education and was self-taught! Hedy was dangerous because she was a beauty, with brains!