Spilling the ITea

historical women in STEM: Hedy Lamarr


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Welcome back to our series on historical women in STEM. This time let's unravel the Hollywood starlet by day, and secret inventor by night: Hedy Lamarr. We chat about her wild double life, her genius ideas, the struggles she faced as a woman in tech before tech was even a thing, and how she dealt with being underestimated just for looking “too pretty.” We’ll dig into the impact she had on wireless tech (with just enough technical detail to keep it clear and digestible), all while the world was too distracted by her looks to notice what she was really doing.

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