Who? What? Where?
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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