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Hedy Lamarr Biography

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Hedwig Eva Maria Lamarr, born 1914 into a wealthy family in Austria. Hedwig has fled her home in Austria in the year 1940. She went to hollywood and changed her name to Hedy Lamarr. Hedy made her way to the top starts pretty quickly, mainly due to her beauty. Although she was once called "The Most Beautiful Woman in The World" most did not see her true talent. Hedy Lamarr wanted to help the Navy send missiles to the right place as well as helping with secret communications. As time went on she met a man named Antheil; he taught her about frequency hopping. Hedy used this information and made her own invention, which today it is called wifi. She brought in her invention to the Navy men and showed to to them. They only laughed and called it stupid. …show more content…

I also find it very helpful in modern day society, with jobs, school work, and lots more. For website designers or game creators they need wifi, or frequency hopping. I need it to do a majority of my homework as well as other students. In my personal opinion I think life would be much more difficult without wifi because if it wasn't for wifi I would be able to play games, or watch shows on my phone or iPad. My dad is a website creator and designer, he relies on wifi to get his work done.
Another way frequency hopping helps us is with some types of communication. Maybe sometimes when I'm busy I can't see my friends face to face so I'll FaceTime them or Skype them. Also iMessaging needs wifi so it doesn't drain data super quick, although texting does use satellites iMessaging depends on both. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all of those social media apps or websites need wifi.
The final thing that I love most about frequency hopping is the fact that it's making wifi; nowadays, wifi is everything. Wifi made the Internet and Google. The Apple computer would not have really worked with out the wifi. We would have lost World War II without Hedy's smarts in making frequency hopping. Wifi has improved since then, especially with the amount of waves it has to send to the three hundred iPads in our

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