Who remembers the name Hedy Lamarr now? But this actress was considered the standard of beauty of the 1940-1950s and became a legend of the golden age of Hollywood, for the first time completely undressed on the big screen and depicting an orgasm in film. It is even more difficult to imagine that this movie star managed to make a contribution to science. In her “free time from conquering Hollywood,” Lamarr came up with a technology that made it possible to create an effective radio control system for torpedoes, which formed the basis for such modern wireless communication standards as GSM, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. But this would happen later, in the early 1930s One of the richest men in Austria, a “merchant of death” who did not hesitate to collaborate with the Nazis, had his eye on the young actress. The choice made at that moment determined her future fate...