Name William Shakespeare | ||
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Died June 25, 1950 (aged 81) Occupation Businessperson, entrepreneur and inventor Known for Inventing the level-winding fishing reel | ||
William Shakespeare, Jr. (September 21, 1869 – June 25, 1950) was an American inventor.
Shakespeare was born to William Shakespeare, Sr. and Lydia A. Markley in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1869.
He invented the level-winding fishing reel. Shakespeare also founded and was one of the key people of Shakespeare Fishing Tackle. which he founded in 1897, as a fisherman aiming to improve the fishing-reel mechanism.
He was a traveling salesman of patent medicines.
In addition to numerous fishing-tackle innovations, Shakespeare also received patents for camera equipment. and a carburetor.
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