Every time your phone connects to a local Wi-Fi network, you have an unlikely person to thank. Long before wireless internet ...

Hedy Lamarr was more than a Hollywood star. According to the National Women's History Museum, the Austrian-American actress ...

Discover how Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr co-invented a groundbreaking wireless technology that later helped inspire Wi-Fi, ...

Hedy Lamarr had a secret second life as a successful wartime inventor with discoveries that led to WiFi and Bluetooth Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Known in the 1940s as "the most beautiful woman in the world," actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr co-invented a wireless ...

Two children’s books out this week tell kid-friendly stories of Hedy Lamarr’s contributions to the scientific community: 'Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor,' by Laurie ...

Hedy Lamarr is remembered as one of the prettiest and sexiest actresses of Hollywood in the ‘40s and ‘50s. But there is the other side of the Austrian-born star: Inventor. Miss Lamarr, along with her ...

Once billed as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” actress Hedy Lamarr is often remembered for Golden Age Hollywood hits like Samson and Delilah. But Lamarr was gifted with more than just a face ...

Few would dispute that Hedy Lamarr belongs in the pantheon of screen goddesses from Hollywood’s golden age. But recognition has proven far more elusive for her work beyond the realm of movie ...

What do innovation and Hedy Lamarr have in common? More on that at the end of this post. In the meantime, let's look at a few quotes about innovation and invention, both technological and artistic.

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Hedy Lamarr was, to use the old studio lingo, a bombshell, one of the most glamorous stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. But that’s only part of her story. She was also a groundbreaking inventor ...