Google doodles Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr on her 101st birth anniversary

Today, Google doodles to celebrate 101st birth anniversary of Austrian and American actress Hedy Lamarr.

The Google Doodle is a reflection of her life, showing the various roles she played such as movie star and also an inventor. Lamarr completed her training in theater and began working as a script girl, and later as an actress.

Some of her popular films include Algiers in 1938, I Take This Woman in 1940, Comrade X in 1940), Come Live With Me in 1941, among others. She was once called the most beautiful woman in the world.

However, Lamarr wasn’t just known for her pretty face. With the view to help Allied war effort, she along with a friend discovered that jamming of Allied radio communications by the Axis as an issue and started developing spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to combat it. It was during her first marriage to Austrian military arms merchant Friedrich Mandl that she acquired interest in applied sciences. However, the US Navy adopted the technology quite later, and one will also find the principles she developed in modern technologies such as Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth.

Lamarr was also asked to use her celebrity status to sell war bonds. Besides, some of her other inventions were improved traffic stoplight and a tablet (though unsuccessful) that dissolves in water to form a carbonated drink.

At the age of 85, Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida. The Doodle tries to encompass the whole journey of how she lived as a celebrity during the day and spent night inventing new principles to help during the World War 2.