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US Patent No. 69791 Fishing Gear by Albert W Wilson April 15 1868 framed declaration The Hoffman Closure Patent BlueprintUs Patent No. 69791 Fishing Gear by Albert W Wilson April 15 192 Albert W. Wilson's 1868 inventor's diagram belongs to the brass and gut age of American angling, when a reel was a small mechanical promise to outwit a trout. The schematic details every pawl, spindle, and tensioning arm with the patience of a man who had clearly lost fish to lesser machinery. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent