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Actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr was once called “the most beautiful woman in the world.” She also gave us the technology that laid the groundwork for Wifi and Bluetooth. 

Actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr was once called “the most beautiful woman in the world.” She also gave us the technology that laid the groundwork for Wifi and Bluetooth. 

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When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age and experience disappear completely.
Engineer Nino Amarena on Hedy Lamarr, the “most beautiful woman in the world”, who invented a radio system for remote-controlling torpedoes that later gave us wifi and bluetooth technology
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