Retro beauties

[easytoslip]

18 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Here's Hedy Lamarr to get us back on track.

 

Beautiful woman. 

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

Beautiful woman. 

She was. And very, very clever.

[easytoslip]

2 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

She was. And very, very clever.

That's right, she had something to do with developing radar in torpedoes in WW2, something like that. 

[DalyanPete]

22 hours ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Never seen it in Rice at all. 

Me neither 

[Harry's Lad]

8 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

That's right, she had something to do with developing radar in torpedoes in WW2, something like that. 

I copied this off a website.

 

Hedy Lamarr was a multi-talented woman who helped develop the foundation for wireless communication. Here are five facts you might not have known about her life and her inventions.

1. Hedy Lamarr was a self-taught inventor

Lamarr grew up in Austria, dropped out of high school in 1930 to pursue acting and never attended college. The closest she came to formal education was through the dinner parties she attended with her first husband, a wealthy Austrian munitions manufacturer many years her senior who reportedly dealt weapons to Mussolini and Hitler.

At these lavish events, which included scientists and high ranking leaders of the Axis powers, Lamarr was exposed to the frontiers of wartime technology and she first realized her lifelong affection for invention.

The marriage didn’t last. Lamarr found her husband increasingly restrictive of her acting career and she fled for the United States with only the luggage in her hands. In one telling, she claimed to have disguised herself as a maid to make her grand escape undetected.

Hedy Lamarr

 MATTEO FARINELLA

2. In collaboration with composer George Antheil, Lamarr patented a “Secret Communication System” designed to keep Nazis from intercepting Allied transmissions during World War II

While living in the United States and enjoying a successful acting career, Lamarr became fast friends with Antheil, an avant-garde piano composer known as “the bad boy of music.” The two enjoyed long discussions about tinkering and inventing that soon turned to the Second World War unfolding overseas. Antheil recalled,

“We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons  … and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington DC, to offer her services to the newly established Inventors’ Council.”

Together, the duo filed a shared patent for an invention that prevented signals transmitted over radio from being intercepted by the enemy. They did this with a clever modification: instead of broadcasting over a single channel, messages would jump seemingly at random across many channels. This was called “frequency hopping.” Their patent used 88 channels, a nod to the number of keys on the piano. If both the sender and receiver knew in advance the channels that would be used, the message would be easily decoded. But to a spy without the correct combination, the message would be indecipherable.

Hedy Lamarr

Wikimedia

Patent No 2,292,387 was awarded in August of 1942. Lamarr is listed as “H.K. Markey,” the name she assumed in her second marriage.

3. The idea wasn’t adopted at the time, in part due to skepticism that an actress could contribute to technology

When Lamarr and Antheil approached the National Inventors’ Council to present their device, they were rebuffed. The council suspected it would be too cumbersome to implement the communication system in military crafts.

She was also rebuffed in her direct attempts to help the war effort. When she offered her expertise in wartime technology to the council, she was denied. They suggested that the “most beautiful woman in films” could make a bigger difference by acting as a spokeswoman for war bonds.

4. Today, her invention is fundamental to wi-fi, Bluetooth technology, and other wireless networks

In the 1950s, engineers at Sylvania Electric Products began looking seriously at the neglected patent. By the early 1960s, they completed the technology to finally implement frequency hopping – not with a bulky mechanical apparatus, as in the patent, but with an electric signal processing system.

“It’s about time.”

In the ensuing years, the frequency-hopping mechanism became part of rapidly developing spread spectrum technology, which is foundational to nearly every modern wireless device. Frequency hopping provides numerous benefits for wireless communication: not only is it nearly impenetrable from a security perspective, it’s also less likely to interfere or be interfered with by neighboring signals. It’s also especially difficult to jam a spread spectrum signal. For all these reasons, Lamarr’s technology was critical to the development of wireless as we know it. Her contribution powers every cellphone, Bluetooth device, and wi-fi network in use today.

5. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Hedy Lamarr was properly recognized for her contribution to wireless communication

Although the number of people benefiting from her invention dwarfs the number of people who have seen her movies, it took decades for anyone to publicly recognize the immense value of her idea. After she was dismissed by the National Inventor’s Council, Lamarr remained an inventor privately, occupying herself between her celebrity obligations with tinkering projects. But to most, she was known only as a beautiful woman. “Any girl can be glamorous,” she lamented. “All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

 Lamarr with Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah

Wikimedia

In 1997, the Electronic Frontier Foundation selected Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil to receive their coveted Pioneer Award for their work on early spread spectrum technology. Mike Godwin, a member of the awarding committee, said, “Ironically, this tool they developed to defend democracy half a century ago promises to extend democracy in the 21st century.”

Upon hearing of her award, Hedy responded, “It’s about time.”

Lamarr passed away in 2000, and since then her contributions have been retroactively recognized in numerous popular media. An off-Broadway play, Frequency Hopping, tells the story of her collaboration and friendship with Antheil. The Discovery Channel and Science Channel have both broadcast specials about her talents as an inventor, and Google has honored her with a doodle.

Hedy Lamarr was constrained by the gender norms of her time, but in the only patent she ever filed, she put a permanent mark on the wireless revolution. Although she never received widespread recognition for her clever innovation in her lifetime, its impact is felt daily by nearly every citizen of the digital age.

[Mike D]

Anneka ka ka ka ka

 

 

[easytoslip]

39 minutes ago, Mike D said:

Anneka ka ka ka ka

 

 

Haha I remember that, die you bloody otter. 

[Mike D]

Some more delicious Rice.

 

[Mike D]

[Tony Moanero]

Elizabeth Taylor

 

[polymerpunkah]

More Sade:

 

[Mike D]

Tippi Hedren. The birds and Marnie.

 

[Bjornebye]

Cindy Crawford

 

 

 

 

[Mike D]

Don’t think 80s and 90s birds are welcome if the anti Anneka brigade are anything to go by.
They want more Celia Johnson.

[Bjornebye]

35 minutes ago, Mike D said:

Don’t think 80s and 90s birds are welcome if the anti Anneka brigade are anything to go by.
They want more Celia Johnson.

I think the problem is Anneka was a bit of a fucking boot if were deadly honest about it all mate. Jet got welcomed with open arms. 

[Mike D]

[Tony Moanero]

Mia Sara

 

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Cindy Crawford

 

 

 

 

It seems they werent so keen to shave every body hair off back when Cindy was in her prime hotness period. Especially her arsehole.

[Mike D]

54 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I think the problem is Anneka was a bit of a fucking boot if were deadly honest about it all mate. Jet got welcomed with open arms. 

Anneka Rice pisses all over Jet from Gladiators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is something I wouldn’t mind seeing.

[aws]

57 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

It seems they werent so keen to shave every body hair off back when Cindy was in her prime hotness period. Especially her arsehole.

You need a bit of that. 

[Bjornebye]

55 minutes ago, Mike D said:

Anneka Rice pisses all over Jet from Gladiators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is something I wouldn’t mind seeing.

Phew. Thought you were about to say something our of line there 

[KMD7]

Cindy Crawford was some next level shit when she first started modelling in the late 80's.  

[Mook]

7 hours ago, Mike D said:

Don’t think 80s and 90s birds are welcome if the anti Anneka brigade are anything to go by.
They want more Celia Johnson.

Cindy Crawford, welcome

Yasmine Bleeth, welcome

Pamela Anderson, welcome 

Sharon Stone, welcome

Elisabeth Shue, welcome

 

Anneka Rice? Away and take your face for a shite.

 

Start a 'Challenge Anneka' thread, where you and all the other blind forumites can post pictures of that fucking munter.

[Mook]

Back on track with some Pammy & Carmen Electra...

 

[Mike D]

Evelyn Knows.

 

 

Don’t make me post pics of Celia Johnson. I’ll do it.