Re: headset

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

Chris Williams wrote:
> 
>( Ron Garrison wrote:...)
>
> >--Perhaps a legend is being born: Do you suppose this will soon rank
> up
> >there with Hedy Lamarr "inventing" spread-spectrum communication?
> 
>    No quotes necessary. Hedy did invent it and patented it. The
> technology
> of the time made the idea difficult to implement (a sort of player
> piano
> mechanism with the punched roll to select frequencies). But the idea
> is the vital thing. She tried to give it to the US military and the
> dunderheads in charge turned her down. It could have been as
> devastating
> to the Axis powers as the Enigma Machine had been to the Allies.
> 
...A good point, and I stand corrected on misusing the quotes--also for
implying that the situations are really equivalent, which they really
aren't--evident from the fact that Hedy Lamarr is still collecting
royalties off her idea. (Not sure if she's still alive, come to think of
it.)

--Ron

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