Saturday Night Cinema: The Strange Woman

Thank you for showing this!! Love Hedy Lamarr!!
Also, thank you for all the great work you do!

I knew Hedy (nee: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) was Jewish, as was the woman who, in my opinion ranked w/ Grace Kelly as most gorgeous in her day: Lauren Bacall (nee: Betty Joan Perske). But I did not know of Hedy’s intellectual contribution to society. Always love learning something new. T/Y.

Yes, Hedy was Jewish, brilliant and beautiful. She shocked the world in the 1930’s by appearing nude in the Czech film, “Ecstasy.” She married a half-Jewish Austrian arms merchant, Fritz Mandl, who often did business with Nazis. She would sit and listen while her husband and Nazi officials discussed military matters at dinner or meetings and took that information with her when she fled her husband and Nazism. Louis Mayer discovered her shortly after she arrived in London. He renamed her Lamarr.
Frequency hopping, was all hers. She didn’t take it from anyone else, as some have suggested she picked it up from the Nazis with whom her husband used to deal. She took the idea to composer George Antheil and together they decided to use a piano roll to move radar control signals for torpedoes among 88 frequencies. This would make detection of the torpedoes difficult. The technique was rejected by the Navy during WWII but was used in 1962 during the blockage of Cuba. By then, Hedy and Antheil’s original patent had expired.
She was an inventor, and probably better at that than at acting. She easily could have been a great scientist or engineer, she was that smart.

o/t
RT News article on proposed new build of 10,000 people capacity MEGA MOSQUE, EAST LONDON
RT News says: No thanks” that is the reaction from residents of East London to Europes largest Mosque being planned in their backyard, right next to the Olympic site. It is not only the sheer size, but the Islamic group developing it that they are worried about.
4 times bigger than St Pauls Cathedral, a Mega Mosque that will fit 10,000 people, and it could be coming to London’s East End, if it gets the go-ahead.
If built it will be the same size as London’s looming Battersea Power Station. It will also be the biggest place of ?? in the UK, of any religion. But critics have slammed the proposals, saying it will create a Muslim Ghetto in the British capital.
Working to bring the largest Mosque the UK has ever seen, into reality. Revered Architects and Planning Consultants, and glitzy PR teams – all paid for by the organisation behind the idea, Tablighi Jamaat (wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablighi_Jamaat), a group that is causing significant concern.
Alan Craig (Campaign Director, Mega-Mosque No Thanks) says: It is only Tablighi Jamaat, out of all the other Islamic groups that have created ghettos over in Toronto, you know, in Canada, right around the world, it is a huge group, and wherever they go, they create barriers, they create hostility, division, they create separatism.
RT News says: With its unassuming name, Tablighi Jamaat’s website claims there is a demand for a Muslim place of worship in culturally diverse East London, not that they are happy to talk about it, its representatives refused to speak to us when we approached the proposed site, home to their current Mosque.
Dr Jenny Taylor (Resident) says: It does not want to integrate. The grounds on which they are trying to set-up here in Britain, in a big way, are anti-British. They are anti-Western. But, actually, they are also anti-Worldly, they’re other ‘worldly’. This is not just going to be a Mosque, this is going to be a centre of training, in which to reach out to islamise Muslims, to harden-up and medievalise, the Islam of ordinary Muslims in this country. I meet so many Muslim who don’t want that.
Asghar Bukhari (spokesman MPAC) says: The problem here is that Muslims themselves are opposing this Mosque. Not on the grounds they don’t want to worship their god, but on the grounds that the women aren’t allowed and the Muslim population has no say on how the Mosque is governed.
RT News says: The Local Authority, would only say to us:
“We can confirm we have received a Planning Application. As this is currently being processed it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
Alan Craig (Campaign Director, Mega-Mosque No Thanks) says: If this were to go ahead, it would be like a tipping point and there would be no stopping fundamentalist Islam if this one goes up. Well, if that happens we all need to leave the country, the last one out, please turn the lights off.
RT News says: While the Council ponders, campaigners here, say they hope the decision makers just who they let set-up shop in the British capital.
Video: http://youtu.be/nPzKXC1BdbU

Interesting information on the frequency hopping invention.
As an Licensed Amateur Radio Operator of 23 years and of general class. I find that most intriguing.
73 de K8CPA
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I found an article with some detail on Hedy’s invention, and comments by present-day electronics engineers, here:
http://www.todaysengineer.org/2012/Apr/backscatter.asp

Great movie.