Learn Celebrating Hedy Lamarr

We love highlighting great stories nearly women’s achievements inwards scientific discipline in addition to technology. When the storey involves a 1940s Hollywood star-turned-inventor who helped prepare technologies nosotros all utilization amongst our smartphones today … well, nosotros but accept to part it amongst the world.

Today on Google’s homepage we’re celebrating Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born actress Hollywood ane time dubbed “the most beautiful adult woman inwards the world.” Lamarr’s ain storey reads similar a motion painting script: bored past times the cinema manufacture in addition to feeling typecast, Lamarr was to a greater extent than interested inwards helping the Allied nation of war evidence every bit World War II broke out than inwards the roles she was beingness offered. She had some background inwards armed forces munitions (yes, really), in addition to together amongst a composer friend, George Antheil, used the principles of how pianos worked (yep, pianos) to position a means to preclude High German submarines from jamming Ally radio signals. The patent for “frequency hopping” Lamarr co-authored position the groundwork for widely-used technologies similar Bluetooth, GPS in addition to wifi that nosotros rely upon daily.

It’s no wonder, then, that Lamarr has sort of a mythical condition at Google, in addition to I was pretty excited at the run a jeopardy to say her storey inwards Doodle form. This took some tinkering of my own—after deciding on the motion painting format every bit a nod to her Hollywood career, I dug through one-time fashion illustrations in addition to motion painting posters to evidence to capture the await in addition to experience of the 1940s. Sketching storyboards on a xanthous notepad helped me figure out how to exhibit Lamarr inwards really dissimilar scenarios—movie star past times day, inventor past times night—which nosotros in addition to hence animated in addition to fix to the awesome soundtrack created past times composer Adam Ever-Hadani.

So inwards the spirit of celebrating women inwards engineering everywhere, here’s to Hedy Lamarr, who fused the arts amongst scientific discipline in addition to never allow herself last typecast. Happy birthday, Hedy, on what would accept been your 101st birthday. And give thank y'all you.

Posted past times Jennifer Hom, Doodler