jamming: Quick Facts

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Key People

Black and white portrait of actress Hedy Lamarr with wavy dark hair, looking slightly upward, wearing a patterned sleeveless top.

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian-born American actress

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Frederick Emmons Terman

American engineer