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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Hedy Lamarr: Securing Wireless Communications Through Frequency Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this two video media gallery from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Learn how Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of secure wireless...
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 435: Hedy Lamarr, Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the remarkable actress Hedy Lamarr who, together with composer George Antheil, invented a technology that used frequency hopping to improve the effectiveness of Allied torpedoes during WWII. Their invention was not put into...