This is a U.S. Military ID photo of SSgt Bernice Frankel (1922-2009) USMC 1943-1945 WWII.
Can anyone tell me for what she is best known? (Without Google...)
Yes. And even if you googled, it wouldn't help. Bernice Frankel worked tirelessly to promote the use of PK nails by surveyors during WWII. She realized that vast quantities of otherwise usable scrap metal desperately needed for war production were being consumed by surveyors when a simple hardened nail would be all that anyone would ever need. In some places, Ms. Frankel's idea caught on so well that even after the war PK nails are still the monument of choice. HTH
Kent, you silly twit. That was not Bernice. That was her cousin, Barney.
Bernice was better known for her work behind the scenes in perfecting the Schonstedt detector that we have all come to love so much. Schonstedt was her maiden name. She attended MIT at a time when few women explored the world of electrical engineering. In fact, there is a Bernice Frankel endowed chair within that department in honor of her accomplishments.
> Bernice was better known for her work behind the scenes in perfecting the Schonstedt detector that we have all come to love so much. Schonstedt was her maiden name.
Interesting.
Along the same lines, this sultry dame (to use the parlance of the day) is also the co-inventor of spread-spectrum radio techology:
Hedy Lamarr and a partner patented the idea in 1941 and gave it to the Navy, but it was 20 years before the Navy implemented it. Now it's ubiquitous, especially in the form of Bluetooth.
> Along the same lines, this sultry dame (to use the parlance of the day) is also the co-inventor of spread-spectrum radio techology:
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Yes, whenever the term "spread spectrum" crops up in conversation, my very first thought is Hedy Lamar. It's quite remarkable how that works.
I had no idea about Ms. Frankel so I did google the name. I would have never guessed in a hundred guesses.
Interesting fiction on the other posts about her.
The Hedy Lamarr story is true, though.
PK nails were invented by Paden Kash.
Who invented MAG nails?
FYI
Kash is actually the old spelling from das Vaterland. My great-grandfather Erkältung (Cold) Kash changed the spelling when he spun the turnstile at Ellis Island. 😉
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Does anybody recognize the woman in this picture?
This was her first meeting with Charlie Chaplin.
'Nuther Ancient Trivia
Helen Keller?
'Nuther Ancient Trivia
Yo Mama?
Not every day I get a chance to interject that phrase into a conversation.
ding ding ding
That is Helen Keller.
I affectionately refer to my deaf Australian Shepherd pup's whines and barks as "Helen Keller bark".
By the way, this is National Deaf Dog Awareness Week. This week pet a deaf dog and give it a goodie...if you can get it to come to you. 😉
I knew she looked familiar but I had to google to find why.
