death_date birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
june 25 , 1950 -lrb- aged 81 -rrb- 1869 inventing the level-winding fishing reel william shakespeare -lrb- inventor -rrb-
 william shakespeare , jr. . businessperson , entrepreneur and inventor
william shakespeare -lrb- inventor -rrb-

william shakespeare , jr. -lrb- c. 1869june 25 , 1950 -rrb- was an american inventor .
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 .
