Bill Lear
William (Bill) Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the first car radio and developed the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system which was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read more about Bill Lear: Early Life, Radio Engineer, Music Cartridges, Transportation, Aviation, Personal Life, Tributes and Honors
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“Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
—David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman)
“There was an old man of Thermopylae,
Who never did anything properly;”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)