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Submarine Telegraphy #2: Radio​-​controlled Torpedos

by ELKA BONG

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Ecstacy 10:09
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Hot-time Dance 10:22
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US Patent 2,292,387 10:38
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Airplane Sonata 11:00
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Frequency-hopping 10:36
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Ballet Mechanique 10:57
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Hedy Lamarr born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. She has been described as one of the great movie actresses of all time.

After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband and moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met MGM studio head Louis B Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood.

During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course. She thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented.

Antheil recalled: We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established Inventors' Council.

Their invention was granted a patent on August 11, 1942. However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military. In 1962, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an updated version of their design at last appeared on Navy ships.

In 1939, Lamarr was selected the "most promising new actress" of 1938.
In 1997, Lamarr and George Antheil were jointly honored with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award and Lamarr also was the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's Spirit of Achievement Award.
In 2013, the IQOQI installed a quantum telescope on the roof of the University of Vienna, which they named after her.
In 2014, Lamarr was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology.
In 2015, Google honored her on her 101st Birthday with a doodle.
In 2019, an asteroid was named after her: 32730 Lamarr.

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released June 6, 2022

Al Margolis - trumpet [1]; toy drum in original packaging close
mic'd [2]; bass guitar [3]; Arp 2600 [4]
Walter Wright - IFMSynth [1-4]
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Birgit Goldbourne - sax [1-4][5]
Marko Wunderlich - electronics [1-4][6]

Mixed by Al Margolis.

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ELKA BONG Chester, New York

AL MARGOLIS
“... is some sort of evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination.”
~ Massimo Ricci

WALTER WRIGHT
is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” ... more

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