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Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

Published: 7 Apr 2019

Hardback, 48 pages

Recommended for age 5+ and 7+

By Laurie Wallmark

Published by Sterling Publishing Co Inc

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To her adoring public, Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous movie star. But in private, she was something more: a brilliant inventor. Now Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu, w tell the inspiring story of how, during World War Two, Lamarr developed a groundbreaking communications system that still remains essential to the security of today's technology.

'Even readers who don't know Hedy Lamarr, 'the world's most beautiful woman,' will become fans after learning how she balanced her fame as a 1930s movie star with a passion for science and inventing.' - 

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