From: Bill Sloman on
On Dec 23, 11:20 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:38:25 -0700, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> > Hedy Lamarr?

The co-inventor of frequency-hopping

http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on
Bill Sloman wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 11:20 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:38:25 -0700, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> > > Hedy Lamarr?
>
> The co-inventor of frequency-hopping
>
> http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html

When you realize that she had no formal technical training and what she
knew, she picked up listening to her first husband when she was 19 years
old, think of what she could have done had she actually trained and
worked in the field.

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From: John Larkin on
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:49:58 -0500, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:25:48 -0500, Phil Hobbs
>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:yM6dnRkFd8E5ra_WnZ2dnUVZ_o1i4p2d(a)earthlink.com...
>>>>>> Typical of Bill. Where is the list ot ten worst analog engineers?
>>>>>> Is he afraid that his name would be the first, followed by Lucas, then
>>>>>> Madman Muntz?
>>>>> The difference is that I don't think Muntz ever claimed to be an engineer...
>>>>> just a salesguy who was willing to cheapen up equipment if he thought there'd
>>>>> still be a market for it!
>>>>
>>>> Ok, he was an engineering manager with a pair of dykes. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Just dikes. Key distinction.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Phil Hobbs
>>
>> *I* am a manager with a pair of dykes!
>>
>> John
>>
>
>Yeah, but look where you live. Anyway, you're a madman too.
>

Aw, shucks, thanks.

John

From: don on
Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> Bill Sloman wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 11:20 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:38:25 -0700, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>>>> Hedy Lamarr?
>> The co-inventor of frequency-hopping
>>
>> http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html
>
> When you realize that she had no formal technical training and what she
> knew, she picked up listening to her first husband when she was 19 years
> old, think of what she could have done had she actually trained and
> worked in the field.
>
I think her own work was more rewarding and profitable.

don
From: krw on
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:39:37 -0700, don <don> wrote:

>Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On Dec 23, 11:20 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:38:25 -0700, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>>>>> Hedy Lamarr?
>>> The co-inventor of frequency-hopping
>>>
>>> http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html
>>
>> When you realize that she had no formal technical training and what she
>> knew, she picked up listening to her first husband when she was 19 years
>> old, think of what she could have done had she actually trained and
>> worked in the field.
>>
>I think her own work was more rewarding and profitable.

....and that's just the pin ups.