3. Hedy Lamarr
May 22, 2019•29 min•Ep. 3
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Episode description
TW: a short description of simulated sex in a movie and cruel directing decisions from 6:34 to 7:03, please skip if you want or need to!
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Woah! We're on a network now! What the heck! We are so excited to be a part of the Pocket Podcast Network - quality programming right to your pocket. This week is all about someone once dubbed "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" - who also invented the technology that allows wi-fi and bluetooth to even exist. Meet Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor, on this episode of STEAMpunks.
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Further Reading/Watching:
- Extraordinary Women: Hedy Lamarr
- Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton
- Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
- Hedy Lamarr by Colleen Cheslak - National Women's History Museum
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Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro.
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