William Shakespeare (inventor)
William Shakespeare Jr. 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.
