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About Bill Lear
William Powell Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the car radio and the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. Throughout his career of 46 years, Lear received over 140 patents.
Everything about Bill Lear →- Occupation
- military flight engineer, inventor, engineer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 26, 1902
- Died
- May 14, 1978