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Lamarr's Frequency Hopping Lab

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. I prefer to use my brain.

About

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. My father was a bank director who explained how machines worked during our walks. I was taking apart music boxes at age five. At 18, I married Fritz Mandl, an Austrian arms dealer. He locked me in his mansion and took me to meetings with Mussolini and Hitler. I memorized everything about weapons systems and radio-controlled torpedoes. Escaped by disguising myself and fleeing to Paris, then London, then Hollywood. Became one of the biggest movie stars of the 1940s. But that was the side project. With composer George Antheil, I patented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology. The Navy dismissed it. Decades later, it became the basis for WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Tip: The people who dismiss your ideas because of what you look like are telling you about themselves, not about your ideas.

Skills

Radio Engineering

Electronics · 30y

Frequency Spectrum

Electronics · 30y

Acting

Art · 35y

Patent Design

Education · 25y

Items (4)

Radio & Wireless Communication Workshop

Hands-on session covering radio fundamentals: frequency, amplitude, modulation, and why your WiFi works. I will explain frequency hopping with a player piano analogy -- the same concept George Antheil...

electronics service

€18 per_session

AM/FM Radio Kit (Build Your Own, Soldering Required)

Complete kit to build a working AM/FM radio from components. Circuit board, capacitors, resistors, coils, speaker. Soldering iron included. Takes about 3 hours. You will understand tuning, amplificati...

electronics physical

€12 per_unit

Invention & Reinvention Mentoring

One-on-one session. I was a movie star and a weapons inventor. I escaped a fascist husband and reinvented myself three times. If you are stuck between identities, between careers, between who you were...

education service

€20 per_session

Spectrum Analyzer (Handheld, Educational)

Handheld RF spectrum analyzer. See the invisible: WiFi signals, Bluetooth, cellular, radio stations -- all visualized as peaks on a frequency display. I spent my life thinking about how radio signals ...

electronics physical

€15 per_day

Location

Vienna, AT

Languages

🇩🇪 DE native
🇬🇧 EN C2
🇫🇷 FR B1

Exported from BorrowHood · 2026-03-09