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This book helps unpack the life of the woman that perhaps here is Richard Rhodes when she walked into her room.

She actually stuck conversations people would be startled by her parents said tragedy of her life go was that she was also highly intelligent, and since she was so strikingly beautiful. Hardly anyone ever noticed her intelligence wasn't factored into the kind of role she was given movies where she usually played some conventionally beautiful woman falling in and out of love with the handsome leading man. The tragedy of this woman was that she was so she pointed out more than a pretty face she'd like to say sarcastically. I can tell you how to be glamorous.

All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Growing up in Vienna. Her parents were wealthy father was a 2 inch breaker and an athlete mother was trained as a concert pianist and she grew up in what was a really multicultural and multi religious community in Vienna just around the time and after the time of the first war so very cultured world.

It was just one of the centers of culture and particularly of the and she fell in love with theater. She was a good actress uses smart learn to play roles much more than the roles she later we plan American films never tested, she also became kind of the catch of the day in Austria exactly because of her beauty. On the one hand, and her fame and the second richest man in Austria decided he wanted her for it is our peace accord. Her name was Fritz mental's relationship was doomed from the start he had pursued her for her beauty because he also is terribly jealous and insecure, making him quite a horrible husband he had made speaking at the extension whenever she was talking with friends on the phone that had her followed and so forth. He was quite certain he was cheating on which distention is not so on the one hand it was a glamorous life with with castles, apartments, but on the other hand, she said one time she felt as if she was gold. Because she really was locked away. It was now 1934 and pretty soon the Nazis would take over Austria. Had he wanted to get out of Austria to pursue her dream of becoming a famous Hollywood actress.

Of course, her jealous husband thought it was in bad taste to be an actress that she decided to leave him. The truth is, as I found when I researched newspapers that it was quite a public divorce is one so while she went first to Paris and then to London, she had her jewelry to pawn to put together a kind of nesting. It happened at that particular point in time Metro cultivator Louis being there direct was in London and traveling around Europe buying up the contracts of Jewish artists who understood that it was time to get out of Europe, head of the Nazi attack on the Jews. He was able to sign people to sign contracts in fairly low wages studio up to eight years times really was blank job lots of European actors that he wasn't going to be conned into letting her so when he made an offer she basically said you walked out. That intrigued him and then she found out what ship he was sailing back to the states on passage in the same make sure he saw her playing deck tennis with pencil and ship. By the time they arrived in New York. She had a contract for good weekly salary for only three years and commit to make certain number films so she was locked to charm the director of MGM into hiring her for the price that you want to be times was a burden and other times he used as a tool to get what she needed.

She got to the state and since starting her new career as an actress and you been listening to Richard Rhodes.

He's the author Eddie's following life and breakthrough inventions of heavy Lamarr the most beautiful woman in the world and what a story were hearing so far, my goodness. We learn right away.

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This was the first time in history that countries were bombing cities and civilian hearing and attempts to save them. The British sent their children away, heading one day reading.

Following this newspapers was horrified that that shipload of children liners that was being used to transport had been torpedoed by German summary that had sunk with I think 82 children killed assault by then she done something really quite unusual for Hollywood seated drink. She didn't like to go to left parties, but in order to fill her time between movies.

She had to find something some other way to hurt herself and she took that she invented seven new kind of stoplights she invented chair on it that could be swung into a shower. Someone who couldn't stand up in the shower could take a shower and then swing back out of the chair and drive sales all so she was kind of a classic and better and that she had no technical training, particularly, but she had a way of looking at the world that asked how can this problem. This larger small problem that exists.

So when she read about the German submarines torpedoing all these English ships with typically the ones children and realize that this was this was Austria interpreting world was where she came from and that it was horrible that that that her background should somehow be tied in with this terrible business of killing civilians. She decided she would figure out a way to make it more possible that it was at the time to attack and destroy a summary. Unfortunately, the torpedoes of the day didn't have any real guidance systems on you. It kind of move us closer to could aim torpedoing the general direction of the separator rather where the separate would be when you thought the torpedo would meet the sub and then you'd launch almost all of the torpedo specific targets, so she thought. Well, there must be a way to guide torpedo and the way she thought of was using radio plane or a surface ship with a radio transmitter could transmit a signal to a report torpedo that was probably let's say towing and wire antenna behind it. On the surface to pick up the signal and the signal could direct the rudder on the torpedo left right guide that in real time to the submarine and blow some prevent children while the United States had not yet entered the war was in organizations and vendors could send their wartime invention ideas to the government for something like 300,000 submission in the course of the second world war. Unfortunately, almost none of which ever got developed into a workable instrument. That's where Eddie turned to find support for her idea of radio control to Peter now. She also had found a collaborator. This was another colorful figure from the tens and 20s of the century name to our Gentile and American composer of avant-garde music and a concert pianist. They batted a dinner party with some friends and immediately bonded over the fact that they were both very interested European war headache broached the idea of her upper torpedo anti-was immediately interested. The question became what kind of radio control system could use. There were no no no digital chips in those days. What would actually tell the torpedo how to direct itself. It tiles music had featured a number of composition, something quite notorious using player piano player piano is separated by a scroll of paper with holes in the roles past vacuum pipe and where there's a whole area stuck to that triggers the mechanism that makes a key activity so I'll imagine that you could probably make a miniature version of one of these scrolls make about of something more durable than paper. Obviously that that device with its impact. He actually gave the scroll that they used model 88 holes brother like Nikki Cipriano so they had been Eddie's original idea for a radio control torpedo they wanted one, however, that couldn't be jammed by a radio signal because if somebody was on the enemy side with picking up radio signals, and they heard the signal being transmitted from the ship to the torpedo they could buy producing a sound of the same frequency basically tends to so how do you solve that problem will there had he got her idea from one of the world's first remote control boxes that had ever been used but very expensive radio radios those days with the sizes of refrigerators. She brought a remote control for her living room radio that had was basically like the dialogue will dial phone but it wasn't remote control and she thought will something like that would work. And that's where the notion of having multiple frequencies with the signal jumping from frequency to frequency more or less random pattern would allow the transmitter to send a signal to the receiver in the torpedo that would jump around all over 88 different frequencies and that no one could follow him fast enough with the jamming signal so the signal could go through it couldn't be Jan here was a really great idea. They put it all together with the help of physicist specialist in electronics who was loaned to them by the national inventors Council of the organization I mentioned that was there to make these inventions possibly useful to the government.

So obviously the national inventors Council thought this was a worthy project and and indeed it was, it probably would have worked very well but when they took it to the Navy. The obvious place to take it. Once you had worked out the basic ideas had a blueprint for invention, which by the way she George Gentile, Eddie and George that patented it was patented under heavy's maiden name, which at that time was Marky Pat was assigned to head big market and George Gentile. That may was given to them as protection for their date that donated this To the U.S. Navy and you been listening to Richard Rhodes, the author of the definitive biography of anyone more when we come back more of this remarkable story Heddy Lamar story here on our American story curls but can't seem to find a product that is your natural hair texture, look no further. The infinity probe icon or natural texture styling system is perfect for you.

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Her and her composer friend George and Kyle created this frequency hopping spread spectrum technology and then handed it over to the Navy returned to faith with the rest of the story.

After passing out any Navy stamped top-secret and I didn't hear about it for a long time. Had he went on to live her life had two children and ended up getting made a total of six times. The longest marriage lasting about seven years after little over a decade. In the early 1950s idea for the radio control torpedo was resurrected, the technology would soon prove itself to be incredibly useful when someone pulled it off the shelf and tossed it over to Manny's volunteering for that that the military keeps and maintains to to develop ideas at the engineer who looked it over.

This is an interesting idea.

Not for us but for ship to ship communications because it was something that could be Jan so the first application. Marky and tile invention came in the early 1950s in the form of a communications system between the plane was called the son of a boy of courses and objects floating in the ocean. This particular boy had a sonar system on its underside underwater.

That would project sonar signals down to the water to listen for summary the inventor who spoke of it later is a very successful venture, said this was a perfect way to to make sure we had a signal that was secure between the plane that would fly over and pick up the communications from sun up and from the sun but pretty quickly. The Navy realized what an efficient way. This was to ship to ship and the ships. For example, that were sent down to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, were all fitted with radio systems that use the patent that had been developed by Heddy Martin to attend. After that, it spread through the military and became a pretty standard communication systems in the 1970s. A lot of these World War II era of that era military secret inventions were declassified under Jimmy Carter as a way of boosting commercial development of these things that this invention was picked up and used some of the early cartel of which of course preceded the kind of cell phones we have now, but had a similar problem that was not privacy so much as the fact that if you have one car telephone talking to another cutoff on one frequency within a particular given city. There would only be about frequencies that you could you that would be no more than a couple hundred cars could be talking to each other at the same time. That obviously was not a commercially but if you could use this jumping frequency hopping as he called it, which came to be called spread spectrum when they changed it slightly, but it was basically the same idea that you move the signal around different with that thousands of cars could talk to each other at the same time and no one would really hear more than an occasional baby almost inaudible blip to the signals crossed each other and let each other out.

Then later on it was used as the basis for what we call Bluetooth today and still is used in blue to it didn't become the basis for all of our cell phones, primarily because it was slightly more expensive to manufacture system that it is for the one that she is itself a state so the manufacturers decided they'd rather go with something that wasn't quite as good but that didn't cost quite so much to make. There are think cell phone systems also do you spread spectrum frequency hopping system so what started out as is laudable interest in trying to save lives. English children became patented. No one signed a use for for about 10 then it became a superb communication system for the Navy spread to the military that was used. I think the GPS system will operate on these days it's is another example of the larger Gentile spreadspectrum system that indicates back-and-forth between the satellites of her head and not all of our grand systems and then eventually Bluetooth which courses tips universal for short distance communication. Also, it's a smart, smart equipment that we have around us today. One piece left in the story is Heddy's lingering feeling as she got older that she had never been given proper credit for this invention. She didn't want the money given the patented name, but she felt that the patent lease that that nation could do for this gift she had given it was time to thank her and some but of course it is all been lost in the fact that her name on the patent wasn't heading in the market was big Marky meaning Colorado who is working on digital communication stumbled upon the Marky and how patent and wondered who these people were and why they apparently this frequency hopping spread spectrum technology was just sitting started looking into it and discovered to his delight that had big Marky was Heddy Lamar. He had like 70 men of his age had been Apsley had a crush on Heddy when he was a teenager during the second world war, the idea that she might have not ever receive credit for this really bothered all of this culminated in the inventors kind of getting together and agreeing that she should receive more and she did in the early 1990s was the pioneer freedom foundation in San Francisco which is devoted to recognizing the work of early digital pioneers. She obviously fit that category. She by then had had so many plastic surgery that she really had rubbed her face and she no longer went out in public that she had a son who didn't do and who came to San Francisco and received the award for she had made a tape for him which he played to the convicted, the conference did it. She said basically thank you I appreciate finally being recognized. But she had sent to her son when he called her before this.

I told her what was coming up. She she had said an amicable Hollywood style valve.

It's about time that her last dream in life. This was a person who really didn't accomplish things took her last goal in life was to live to the turn-of-the-century which she died in January 2000 and her little house in Florida. Children happy woman. Now she I think she was never happy in love but she did some extraordinary things and great job on that faith and what a story my goodness it wasn't the money she ever wanted, but getting that recognition by the pioneer freedom foundation in San Francisco a big deal to her. Any Lamar story here on our American stories. This is now American stories, and now we continue our series better health at lower cost and we've talked about blue zones. There are five regions in the world, characterized by Dan Buettner in his book the actual people that live in these types of places. Today we introduce you to the younger members of their community in Loma Linda, California Zella and David floor. I was born in New Mexico in 1930, in the beginning of the Great Depression my parents were relatively poor. So then I ended up going to Linwood Academy questions and administer school and that is Pacific in college which is administered college in California and then I came here to Loma Linda to take the nurses course and I graduated in 1953 Simon old-timer around the London early age, yet I wanted to be in force for in the applicable State University and reinforcement measures, and from there went to work for the Ice Age for service 38 years later I was working on the San Bernardino National Forest's mountain trail here had worked on there for 18 years of different positions, and that I miss going through a divorce and start printing out a little bit and my first wife and I will harden following my divorce I had at that time to nearly growing girls whenever was it PC and I needed to get my stuff in gear and some money to keep those kids in school and so I left Salt Lake City came here to Loma Linda tonight on the matter. Got a job center and so this was a long time ago.

40 years ago, 76, 77, after couple years I needed more of a social life. I was 48 years old. It may signal that it is in its bite you and sell.

I had some friends who were square dancers and he said only, not a car historian in class, which of course to eight or nine months only relative with our class, and square dance clubs came around and for inviting us to come to different places so this square dance net Highland in San Bernardino and I met on Sunday afternoons which was perfect for me as I was working a shift in hospital but I had to get up at 530 every morning so I couldn't go on evenings, so the afternoon was fine.

Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. I think it was. We had our square didn't think it was the second time there he shall and the rest is history. Liver liver accidentally put in the same square collar since I just glared same square and landed exiting the next getting acquainted.

Two years later he was not born and raised, administered, as I was in so I can put a little bit different background different lifestyle. Not that much different know I grew up Presbyterian. Well, that when I went to college and kinda got away from church. It was coming. Now that I met Ella. It's been steady going to church every week for 40 years is going to church on Saturday and so we don't dissuade Nancy so he says I can wiggle square dancing on Friday night or Saturday. Well I'm busy after mentor to church.

I have to do to go to church with you pick me up just take me to change me were married goes around comes around. In the meantime and healthful living person happens about six months after we met, and after we were married and married about six months. The other breast. It was breast cancer. How does a healthy living person who is concentrating on being helpful get such a horrible thing happens among the best investment I got friends in here who have cancer who have had cancer. That's no healthful living is no indication that you're not going to have things go wrong. We only have we have genetic things that happen when you were living in a contaminated world that we got inherited gene variants you know and as we learn more about genetics, there are variants that come along that we inherent in my mother had breast cancer. Parent parent mentor did her sister did so it doesn't happen testing to see if I had a genetic makeup, and I don't I don't have any genetic makeup. It just happened. And that's things are but I feel that Don my cancer was 40 years ago.

Canon 40 years ago and I cannot my survival from breast cancer in my healthful life now because of the healthful condition I was in my healthful living just because you get unhealthy things like this doesn't mean that it comes from your lifestyle. It can or cannot, but you're like a healthy lifestyle will help you to overcome the problems that we run into when I was altered I had chemotherapy for the second time the first time I did not need any chemotherapy. I asked the doctor, who was who is taking care of me to let me get a second opinion from someone just to make sure that we had forgotten something, and he said I think we just send you over to Stanford anyway. We went to we went over to Stanford and saw this Dr. I can reasoning not doesn't matter because it was a long time ago. He probably has retired 40 years ago and he said everything is fine. You look good. Good treatment and had everything he said I have two things to tell you to do number one instant keep your weight down and number two is to keep a positive attitude. Now I myself broke those two things down to keep my weight down. What do I need to do a healthy diet.

You need to exercise all the things that go towards making healthy, fresh air, plenty of water. All these things help to keep your weight and the second thing how do you keep a positive frame of mind that your family, your surrounding your support system. It's your family at your church.

That's your attitude your things that you do with your mind how you keep active.

I try to make it a habit to learn something new as I can.

I read a lot. Now I'm in my late 80s and there are more people here in her 90s shake a stick just a couple here. Just hang on for the hundredth birthday and they're doing fine and I planted one of these days not there yet, but I ended my career in San Francisco at the regional office and I retired and we said before, we got a live live anywhere you want in the world. We decide to move here and solely we've been looking at retirement communities and settle on this one.

Everybody said why I says it feels like home. Wonderful place to live. We go to the adjacent three times a week.

We go to a class or there that care. So I said older people that they can't share aerobics and so what Mayor they do things and get her heart rate happen and practice unbalancing with practice on things that are important for older people to keep from falling were very fortunate to me in a place really have all the things that first is the one thing we don't appreciate about the tracer center is when you're over 80. We have the run of the gymnasium we take advantage of it is much as we can. I go down there and walked to the outside track. There's an outside track there that if you walk in twice. You've walked a mile in support of a mild to walk up here to the gym wonderful support to me that as many that is been one of the things that has contributed to my timeshare and it has to be.

I don't have any problem with this blue zone thing we talked about talk about lot about it here and most there's nothing magic about Loma Linda. Everybody's come from someplace else that lives in the company and all over the world. Income your negative here Maria is so the blue zone is all over cell lifestyle and of course I will have to say that were not perfect and following the blue zone recommendations. All of us. We fall down occasionally way too much ice cream that something that generally where healthy and start to our lifestyle as we can. Healthy diet.

Our use of water are exercise our sleep. I rest are the sense of community. Our family and our faith and trust in God. Those are the things that make up his in human listing Giselle and David floor and great job on that. Robbie went out to Loma Linda this study and to look at and learn from these remarkable people. Zella and David four-story the end Loma Linda story would continue this remarkable piece of earth in California ears on our American stores