 In the year 2000 at the age of 86, Hedy Lamar passed away in Florida. She hadn't been seen in public for years. The actress was completely glamorous on the silver screen, but as age crept up on her, she shilled away from public life and Hedy would have faded into legend with the rest of the actors of the silver screen if it wasn't for one thing. In 1941, she invented one of the greatest technologies of the 20th century, an invention the US government never credited her for until the 1990s, a lost patent that was stolen. Hedy Lamar is not remembered as a pioneer, but that is exactly what she was. She championed wireless communications, invented Bluetooth, and many other forms of wireless technologies that became known as spread spectrum technology. The international beauty from Austria invented the secret communication system to stop the advance of the Nazi party by manipulating radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmissions and reception. This invention formed an unbreakable code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy personnel. An invention so important, so advanced that it was kept secret until 1997 when her son pushed for her recognition. She received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 1997 and though she was not present at the event, she phoned her son to see how it went. Funny enough, her son was giving the speech she prepared for him to read out on her behalf just as she called. He took the phone call to his mom and spontaneous ovation broke out in the crowd. Hedy remarked, it's about time. During her heyday, Lamar was considered the most beautiful woman in the world. Her face was the inspiration for Disney Snow White and for Catwoman. She was the most famous Hollywood star who would finish performing on set with Clark Gable and then go back to her trailer and work on her inventions. In rare long lost cassette tapes from the 1990s, Lamar describes her contribution to aerospace engineering when she says, I thought the airplanes were too slow. I decided that's not right. They shouldn't be square the wings. So I bought a book on fish and I bought a book on birds and then use the fastest bird connected it with the fastest fish and I drew it together and showed it to Howard Hughes. And then he said, you're a genius. The concept of bringing animals of this earth together to replicate their motion is something no one had thought about until Hedy said this. This was a quantum leap forward in our understanding of the technological things and where will we be without her influence? A quiet influence that affects us all in everyday life. Let us remember the great thinker for what she deserves to be remembered for. Hedy once said that people's brains are more interesting than their looks. A message of her frustration in a world that could not see past her intense beauty gifted in many ways like a goddess to behold. She describes ideas as coming to her naturally. Maybe she knew the secrets of the Acacic realm, but what do you guys make of this? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.