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Biografieën
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 US history, while Shaw Sr., in order to make ends meet for his family, was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481567114
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 23 december 2008
3.7
Biografieën
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 US history, while Shaw Sr., in order to make ends meet for his family, was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481567114
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 23 december 2008
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Liz
6 jun 2017
Dit leek me een erg interessant verhaal en ik baal daarom enorm dat het boek me zo tegenviel. De zoon vertelt het niet als een verhaal in chronologische volgorde maar zoals het in hem op komt. Van de hak op de tak dus en erg ongestructureerd. Daarom niet zo goed te volgen en minder leuk om te luisteren. Na twee uur heb ik het opgegeven en het boek verwijderd.
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