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Omega Publishing Group
April 2008
On Sale: March 31, 2008
270 pages
ISBN: 097860590X
EAN: 9780978605902
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Walter T. Shaw's Autobiography - As early as the 1940s,
1950s and 1960s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speaker
phones, conference calls and call forwarding. Of the
thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic
breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows
his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw was leading us
into a high-tech future as part of the intellectual elite,
but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big
corporations. His son, Walter T. Shaw, was enraged by the
ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission
to even the score. Shaw Jr. would become one of the most
prolific jewel thieves in U.S. history. Shaw Sr. spent a
lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of
communication we take for granted today, but it was all for
nothing. Tragically, only the Mafia rewarded him. Just to
make ends meet for his family, he was persuaded to put his
brilliance to work for the mob.
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