Genius on hold: Meet the man who invented much of the modern phone … and maybe even Apple
February 26, 2013 3:30 PM
John Koetsier
Editor's Pick Walter L. Shaw is someone you've never heard of. But he invented big chunks of your world, and then died, almost penniless, living on the charity of his international jewel thief son, a made man in John Gotti's New York mob.
