Quiz

[deepix]

An American actress was also a remarkable engineer who contributed something significant to telecommunications technology. Can you recognise this lady? Bonus: Can you name the invention?

Comments

[deepix]

Cool - I did not know about it. Does it work if I resize/edit the pic a bit? I'm wondering if they just maintain a hash of images or something like that.

Telecom Quiz

[poovanna]

Actress: Hedy Lamarr;
Invention: Frequency hopping.

[ashokd]

Google makes remembering such he(a)dy details totally un-necessary. You just need the right keywords to narrow down the broad spectrum of possible answers!

[deepix]

LOL. Cleverashok!

[kanthi]

I know she invented spread spectrum technique which led to CDMA.. But I wouldn't remember her name without searching for it :-)

[deepti_revankar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr :)