Complex sentence: Richard Bissell Prosser (August 25 1838-March 18 1918) patents examiner, and biographical writer, was the eldest son of Richard Prosser, the Birmingham, England, engineer and inventor.
Split into simpler sentences: Richard Bissell Prosser (August 25 1838-March 18 1918) was a patents examiner and a biographical writer. He was the eldest son of Richard Prosser, the Birmingham, England, engineer and inventor.