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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Oscars.

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Tonight is a very special night. We are here to honor an exceptional woman.

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Not only was she an actress, but also one of the most important inventors in the history of technology.

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She has remained unknown all her life, and now it's time to change that.

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I must say that I am delighted to pay tribute to such an amazing woman.

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So, without further delay, I'm honored to say that the Oscar goes to...

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Hedy Lamarr!

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Hedwig Eva Maria Kessler was born in 1914 in Vienna, the capital city of Austria.

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She studied engineering, even though she left college to study dramatic arts when she was 17.

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One year later, she moved to Berlin to film what would be her first movie.

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called ecstasy in this movie a woman would appear totally naked for the first time in the history

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of cinema this movie was frowned upon and she had to left stages and marry her first husband

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she was forced to marry a man he was one of the richest men in the world and also quite a bit

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nazi sadly he didn't accept the fact that her wife had appeared naked on the screen in front

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of thousands of people so what he decided to do was to tie hetty to a bed and keep her locked in

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a room she couldn't take her clothes off or take his hour unless he was in front of him which is

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kind of creepy during this time shut up in her house hetty got up on the latest technology

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advances, fascinated by the improvements done in the engineering fields. One day she stole all of

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her husband's yields and money and escaped to the States in a ferry, where she met the founder of

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the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which is one of the most well-known cinema companies. Then she changed her

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name to Hedy Lamarr. In the States, she rejected to be the main character of Casablanca, a choice

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that she regretted all her life.

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One of the top box office earners' movies of the 20th century.

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In 1940, she started working on a brand new project with a friend of hers.

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She patented the invention of the sentry.

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It was a secret communication system based on jams and frequencies

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that enabled US soldiers to send and receive confidential messages

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without being interfered by German soldiers during World War I.

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she was given a lot of important

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awards such as the

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which is known as the

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Oscars of inventors

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so not only

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did she help on World War II

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but her invention was used

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year later to carry out other communication

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systems such as

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Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS

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among others

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so next time you check a

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notification website

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or you ask Siri to get you somewhere

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Don't forget to thank Harry Lamar.