Hedy Lamarr, a famous Hollywood actress and an inventor who co-invented a technique called frequency hopping, which is the basis of modern technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

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So hot 🥵

She didn't just invent it. She drew the circuitry on a napkin while having lunch with a navy officer that was telling her about the problems they were having with torpedo detonators during WW2.

She was a brilliant mathematician and physicist.