Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Hedy Lamarr, Inventor

Hedy Lamarr in World War II

Worked with George Antheil, pianist,

And made an invention to do

Frequency hops so to resist

Torpedoes being jammed by foe,

With perforated paper tape

On a small player piano,

Bettering strikes in the seascape.

Austrian citizenship stuck

Hedy in an alien state,

And her invention by bad luck,

The U.S.A. did confiscate.

She bested the U.S. government,

Later Hedy proving her patent.