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une histoire #triste supplémentaire à ajouter au systématique #dénigrement_des_femmes

3. The idea wasn’t adopted at the time, in part due to skepticism that an actress could contribute to technology

When Lamarr and Antheil approached the National Inventors’ Council to present their device, they were rebuffed. The council suspected it would be too cumbersome to implement the communication system in military crafts.

She was also rebuffed in her direct attempts to help the war effort. When she offered her expertise in wartime technology to the council, she was denied. They suggested that the “most beautiful woman in films” could make a bigger difference by acting as a spokeswoman for war bonds.
4. Today, the invention is fundamental to wi-fi, bluetooth technology, and other wireless networks

In the 1950s, engineers at Sylvania Electric Products began looking seriously at the neglected patent. By the early 1960s, they completed the technology to finally implement frequency hopping – not with a bulky mechanical apparatus, as in the patent, but with an electric signal processing system.

#informatique #codeuse #crypto #réseau #femme #historicisation (hééé @mad_meg what’s up !-)