Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi
g_the_b@lemmy.world 2 months agoShe didn’t invent frequency hopping, Nicola Tesla did She invented a system that used a piano roll (from a player piano) to alternate frequencies.
Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi
g_the_b@lemmy.world 2 months agoShe didn’t invent frequency hopping, Nicola Tesla did She invented a system that used a piano roll (from a player piano) to alternate frequencies.
balp@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Or rather she was part of a team, with her husband and one more, that patented that idea, never really got it to work in real torpedos, and the technology was forgotten until someone referred to it in a later patent. Then her role as background got expanded to take the role of other more influential women, maybe because she had a nicer picture.