Your birth year
2006
Frequency-Hopping Patent
1942Wireless communication
Frequency-Hopping Patent is 64 years older than you
It's from 1942, before you were born.
- Inventor
- Hedy Lamarr
- Inventor age
- 27
- Field
- Wireless communication
About
As of 2026, it's 84 years old.
The frequency-hopping patent granted in 1942 linked Hollywood celebrity, wartime engineering, and later wireless communication ideas.
It is a strong OlderThan invention because it surprises people: Lamarr was not only a movie star, she was connected to technology that later became part of the spread-spectrum story.
Frequency-Hopping Patent through the years
1942
1942
Patent granted
Lamarr and Antheil received a patent for a secret communication system.
You were born — 2006
