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Negative? How a Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention
Decades ago, a young naval engineer on a British nuclear submarine started taking an interest in the electric batteries helping to run his vessel. Silently running under the frozen polar ice cap …
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How actress Hedy Lamarr’s WWII military invention was torpedoed by the US Navy
Pigeonholed into one-dimensional roles as a Hollywood sex object, actress Hedy Lamarr may initially come off as a squandered talent. When you hear about her never-used contribution to military technology, that becomes a sure thing. Born Hedwig Kiesler into …
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