Master Vault B
BIOGRAPHIES
Thriller-style portraits of titans, masterminds and the power that moves in the shadows.
Files in this vault
File BIO-003
The Hollywood Star Who Patented A System To Guide Torpedoes — Hedy Lamarr
The thesis: the Hollywood star whose secure-communication patent made Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS possible was treated at the same time by the film industry and by the military as a face without a brain.
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File BIO-002
He Saved Mothers With Handwashing And Died In An Asylum — Ignaz Semmelweis
The thesis: the same institution that honors him today is the one that destroyed him in life, for insisting on a truth no one wanted to believe.
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File BIO-001
She Sculpted For Rodin Unsigned And Her Family Locked Her Away For 30 Years — Camille Claudel
The thesis: the sculptor's hands may have carved some of the most celebrated works attributed to her master, and her own family locked her in an asylum for thirty years even though doctors certified, again and again, that she was not mad.
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