There’s a lot of press coverage right now about Hollywood’s Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr thanks to the new book, Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, by Richard Rhodes.
An article in the LA Times explains that “in 1942, she came to be co-holder of a patent on spread spectrum radio, a technology that 
underlies modern conveniences mobile and cordless telephones, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. Put in modern context, it’s like crediting [Farrah] Fawcett as the one who developed Google’s proprietary search algorithm.”
Listen to an eight-minute NPR story here.
