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  2. ABU Garcia - Wikipedia

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    Fishing lures made by ABU in the 1960s. Photographed at the ABU Museum in Svängsta. ABU Garcia introduced a series of fishing reels and related products in the beginning of the 1950s. The Swedish built ABU 444, the company's first spinning reel, was introduced in 1955, followed in 1965 by the first model of the Cardinal series of spinning reels.

  3. Fishing reel - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Angling, first published in 1651, is the first English language book to cite the use of fishing reels. 'Nottingham' and 'Scarborough' reel designs. The first English book on fishing is "A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle" in 1496 (its spelling respective to the manner of the date is The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle [7] ').

  4. Fishing rod - Wikipedia

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    These products were light, tough, and pliable. Rods were generally made in three pieces called a butt, midsection, and tip. The butts were frequently made of maple, with bored bottom; this butt outlasted several tops. Midsections were generally made from ironwood because it was a thicker, strong wood.

  5. Heddon (brand) - Wikipedia

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    Heddon is a brand of artificial fishing lures created by James Heddon, (originally a beekeeper) who is credited [by whom?] with the invention of the first artificial fishing lures made of wood in the late 1890s. The Heddon Company was founded in 1902 to sell the lures, originally made by hand in the Heddon family kitchen in Dowagiac, Michigan.

  6. History of fishing - Wikipedia

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    These were large boats, usually 80–90 feet (24–27 m) in length with a beam of around 20 feet (6.1 m). They weighed 40-50 tons and travelled at 9–11 knots (17–20 km/h; 10–13 mph). The earliest purpose built fishing vessels were designed and made by David Allan in Leith in March

  7. Stewart-Warner - Wikipedia

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    Today this area is all condos with a new street grid. 1990. Share of the Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp., issued 22. October 1925l Mid-1950s Stewart-Warner automotive instruments in "Hollywood" panel. The company was founded as Stewart & Clark Company in 1905 by John K. Stewart. Their speedometers were used in the Ford Model T.

  8. George W. Snyder - Wikipedia

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    He was a skillful watchmaker and silversmith; being a good practical angler, and seeing the necessity for a rapid multiplying reel for black bass fishing with the live minnow, he proceeded to invent one. Snyder's first reel was made for his own use, about 1810. He afterward made reels for members of his club, and others. [1]

  9. Maria E. Beasley - Wikipedia

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    A wallpaper printing press was exhibited inside the Centennial Exposition's Machinery Hall in 1876 (where Beasley was a frequent visitor).. During her time in Philadelphia, Beasley listed her profession as "dressmaker" in city directories, [6] but in 1876, when the Centennial Exposition opened in Philadelphia, Beasley became a frequent visitor to the exhibits in Machinery Hall.