In an era, where women's aptitude was often overshadowed by their appearance, one lady broke all expectations and barriers ...

Hedy Lamarr’s early life, family background, and Hollywood beginnings Born to a rich Jewish family, Lamarr grew up in a well-to-do environment. Lamarr's father was a bank director and encouraged his ...

Discover how Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr co-invented a groundbreaking wireless technology that later helped inspire Wi-Fi, ...

Society often tries to categorize women into two groups: beauty or brains. The media often portrays this with women in STEM careers looking "unfeminine." It's a bit funny, then, that the woman ...

Hedy Lamarr, glamorous siren of the silver screen, was more than 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'. She invented Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology that makes the world of wireless ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of invention documents, primarily typescript correspondence and one notebook of hand drawn sketches and handwritten notes that ...

If you used Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet today, you owe a bit of gratitude to Hedy Lamarr. Monday's Google doodle celebrated what would have been the 101st birthday of Hedy Lamarr, the ...

Hedy Lamarr was ridiculously lovely. Both Catwoman and Snow White were based on her look. As a teenager, Lamarr was cast in the controversial Czechoslovakian film Ecstasy, where she ran naked through ...

Hedy Lamarr played much more than "the most beautiful woman in the world" as an Austrian-American actress during Hollywood's Golden Age. The mathematically-minded inventor first learned about military ...

Heather Massie will perform her solo play, "HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr," at Morningside Players Theater Company, 100 La Salle Street, Manhattan, for general audiences October 25 to 29.