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Entrepreneur William P. Lear; Inventive Mind: His creativity changed communication, transportation.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: KEN HOOVER
Bill Lear was 24 years old, and practically broke when he moved to Chicago in 1926.
No matter to him. He was determined to make a success of himself in the two fields he loved: radio and aviation.
For a time, he repaired radios out of his apartment. Then, in 1927, a big radio convention brought manufacturers in the fast-growing industry to town to show off their latest products, radios that ran on AC power.
But there was a problem: the hotel hosting the convention had steam generators running DC. At the last minute, they were forced to install generators to power their radios.
Lear (1902-78) watched silently from the sidelines. He knew -- from early experiments trying to get a radio to run in a car -- that sound from the radios would be plagued by static. "Lear waited until panic had gripped the organizers, then confidently announced he could solve the problem for $1,000," said biographer Richard Rashke in "Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick, Bill Lear."
Working around the clock for 100 hours, he and a partner built filters for each piece of equipment in the show. "By the time the convention opened, there was hardly a manufacturer's representative who hadn't heard of Bill Lear," Rashke said.
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