Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000). Hedy Lamarr was born on 9 November 1914 in what is now Austria. Hedy Lamarr is remembered as an inventor, autobiographer and screenwriter, a citizen of Austria and the United States. Notable works include “Ecstasy”, “Samson and Delilah” and “Algiers”.
Before and after
- 16 October 1914Founding of Goethe University Frankfurt
- from 19 October 1914 to 22 November 1914First Battle of Ypres
- from 24 October 1914 to 30 October 1918Caucasus campaign
- from 29 October 1914 to 30 October 1918Middle Eastern theater of World War I
- 9 November 1914Birth of Hedy Lamarr
- from 11 November 1914 to 22 November 1914Battle of Basra
- from 3 December 1914 to 9 December 1914Battle of Qurna
- 16 December 1914Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
- from 17 December 1914 to 13 January 1915First Battle of Artois
More in Science & technology
- 15 September 1917Launch of Forbes
- 1923Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
- 1933Karl Jansky detects radio waves from the Milky Way
- 4 March 1936First flight of LZ 129 Hindenburg
- from c. 1940s to 1960sGreen Revolution
- 1944Avery, MacLeod and McCarty show that DNA carries genes
The era
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