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The Player-Piano Trick Behind Hedy Lamarr's Frequency-Hopping Patent

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Wikipedia 'Hedy Lamarr', section Inventing career, checked 2026-09-28
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The invention was proposed to the Navy, who rejected it on the basis that it would be too large to fit in a torpedo, and Lamarr and Antheil, shunned by the Navy, pursued their invention no further.
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