Title. I just think ot would be fun if a journalist interviewed, for example, a famous musician, but instead of questions regarding their latest album, the interview was all about that year where they worked as a plumber.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 days ago

    Reads opening summary

    “Okay, mhmmm, interesting life and career as an actress…”

    Reads just below that

    At the beginning of World War II, along with George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers.

    “WHAT that’s cool”

    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      It was a cool idea - unfortunately the US Navy decided not to use it because they felt the required gears, motors and circuitry (in the age of vacuum tubes) would add too much weight and complexity to a torpedo, and they were concerned about reliability. So the idea remained on paper, with no prototypes ever being built. In the late 1950s, when transistor technology was replacing vacuum tubes, radio engineers at Phillips Corp (if I remember right) made the concept practical. Some people’s version of all this is to credit Lamarr for inventing WiFi or even the Internet, and that the navy wouldn’t listen to her because she was a woman until a corporations stole her idea - placing her in the mythical realm of Nikola Tesla.