WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LANs) AND LIBRARIES

April, 2001

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The Hedy Lamarr connection

The film actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil codeveloped a patent on the radio broadcasting technique called frequency hopping.  This technique later became the basis for the spread-spectrum concept which is fundamental to today's wireless communications.

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