“As a woman-founded institution, empowering women of all backgrounds in the fields of art and technology is in our roots.
In honor of Women’s History Month and beyond, join us in exploring the unique stories of women innovators whose past legacies and current ventures have shaped contemporary culture as we know it. Without women, there would be no innovation!”
“There was much more to actress Hedy Lamarr than her silver-screen beauty and performances––she was a self-taught, revolutionary inventor.
During WWII, Lamarr in collaboration with her partner George Antheil discovered a critical breakthrough in wartime radio communications: frequency hopping.
Simply put, frequency hopping made it impossible for enemy forces to locate and potentially block messages sent between Allied forces.
Though the technology was rejected by the U.S. Navy at the time, Lamarr’s design and concept would go on to inform even bigger technological innovations that currently impact our world today, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and cordless phones.
