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Who? What? Where?

Christopher Hawtree
Friday 24 September 1999 23:02 BST
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Answers 11 September

Who? Hedy Lamarr

What? In the Forties, Lamarr hit upon an idea for synchronised variable radio frequencies, a technology that is now used in cellphones.

Where? The Casbah in Algiers. Hedy Lamarr starred in John Cromwell's film Algiers, in 1938.

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