How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes

 


"Ever since I found out back in 1989 that Hedy had invented Spread Spectrum (Frequency Hopping type only), I followed her career historically until her death. My interview with her is one of the most notable memories I have of speaking with an inventor, and as luck would have it, she was underestimated for nearly 60 years on the smarts behind her beauty. One of the things she said to me in our 1997 talk was, ‘my beauty was my curse, so-to-speak, it created an impenetrable shield between people and who I really was’. I believe we all have our own version of Hedy’s curse and trying to overcome it could take a lifetime."

more in the article by Maria Popova​


How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes – Brain Pickings