She didn’t invent frequency hopping, Nicola Tesla did She invented a system that used a piano roll (from a player piano) to alternate frequencies.
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olutukko@lemmy.world 2 months agothat’s not how it works
g_the_b@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 2 months ago
Yeah, I think I get it. I mean the analogy is a bit flawed. What she invented is that alike synchronizing the rolls of player pianos, you could build a mechanism that hops frequencies (instead of piano keys) to make remote controlling torpedos resilient against jamming.
Idk. To me it feels like calling the inventor of three-wheeled vehicles the father/mother of cars, if we want to stay with that analogy. It’s remotely related, not an integral part and nowadays solved differently. But the first car was a tricycle. (Benz Patent-Motorwagen)
But I don’t want to invalidate her achievements either…