00:05They called her the most beautiful woman in the world, and she truly is. Edwig Eva Maria Kiesler
00:12aka Edi Lamar enchants at first sight both on screen and in person with that waterfall
00:19of waves of jet black hair falling on her shoulders, a harmoniously symmetrical face,
00:24the very green eyes, under the perfect arch of the eyebrows. But above all, what makes her
00:30one of the most significant Hollywood divas between the 40s and 50s, protagonist of films with stars
00:37like Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and James Stewart, it is his exotic sensuality halfway between old Europe
00:44and the Middle East. And not only because she was the protagonist of one of the first nudes in cinema
00:49already in the 30s or because the studios launched her as a formidable sex object.
00:56She's the one who is like that, feline and fatal, beautiful. Okay, beauty and sensuality are part of being.
01:04A diva, what more could you want? And yet Edi Lamar is also other things.
01:11Meanwhile, she has been an anti-Nazi activist since she had to leave Austria because she is Jewish and collaborates
01:18to raise funds for the war against Hitler. But above all because, in addition to being beautiful,
01:25Edwig Eva Maria is very intelligent. She left engineering at university to pursue a career in cinema.
01:31but he continued to study. His home library is full of theory texts and notebooks written by
01:37she,
01:38full of diagrams and mathematical formulas. He had an idea that he developed together
01:43to a friend of hers who had emigrated from Austria like her, George Antail. A cryptographic protocol
01:49for wireless communications, a way to change the frequencies of signals to make them
01:55less interceptable by the enemy, for example in the case of sending torpedoes or communications between ships.
02:02They make a prototype built with a piano keyboard. George is also an artist, a musician.
02:09They patented it in 1942 and proposed it to the United States Navy, which however did not take it into consideration.
02:18It's too far ahead for them to understand. They are two Austrians and they don't trust each other,
02:23Let's say they're spies, but above all she's a movie star.
02:28Besides being beautiful and sensual, what more could you want? She's the most beautiful woman in the world.
02:32You want me to be smart too? No kidding.
02:36And instead, years later, patent 2 292 387 is rediscovered and Eddie the Diva's intuition
02:46It is recognized as the foundation of technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular networks.
02:52A fundamental intuition, so much so that Eddie Lamar and his friend George will be included in 2014
03:00in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which brings together the greatest inventors of the United States.
03:07Not bad for someone who was simply the most beautiful woman in the world.
03:11Not bad for someone who was simply the most beautiful woman in the world.
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