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Lamarr didn’t invent frequency hopping. She invented a variant. The Navy never used her invention. 5g cell phones and WiFi use a different form of spread spectrum, code division multiple access, not frequency hopping. Spread spectrum actually existed since the 1920s, before Lamaar.

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