Hedy Lamarr was more than a Hollywood star. According to the National Women's History Museum, the Austrian-American actress co-invented a World War II radio guidance system using frequency hopping technology with composer George Antheil. Though ignored for decades and never profiting from the patent, her invention later became a foundation for modern wireless communication, influencing technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

In an era, where women's aptitude was often overshadowed by their appearance, one lady broke all expectations and barriers and pursued all of her interests fiercely. She went from…

Hedy Lamarr, a famous Hollywood actress, was also a brilliant inventor. Hedy escaped Nazi Europe and developed a frequency-hopping communication system during World War II. She is…