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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Joe Barrett. |
| Summary |
As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, 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 spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted, 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. became one of the most prolific jewel thieves in U.S. history, while Shaw Sr., in order to make ends meet for his family, was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Shaw, Walter L., 1917-1996.
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Shaw, Walter Thiel, 1948-
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Telephone -- Technological innovations -- United States.
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Telephone -- Patents.
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Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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Jewel thieves -- United States -- Biography.
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Mafia -- United States -- Case studies.
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Criminals -- United States -- Biography.
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Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Mary Jane.
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Barrett, Joe.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982496661 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982496665 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10026417 |
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