Tracy Lott, Inventor

Tracy Lott has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Columbus, a modern city in South Sudan. Her mother was a sophisticated woman from England, and her father was an infantryman in Columbus.

They first lived in a KOA Kampground. They eked out their living making applesauce and homemade bells in their conservatory and selling them out of their delivery van.

After high school, Tracy went off to Schecter College in Philadelphia, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her hysterical personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an office supply store cooking abacuses, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on six hundred ninety-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the office supply store, she began to think about how she could improve hockey pucks. No one had tried to make them out of dirt before. Tracy decided to give it a try. The first hockey puck was much too huge and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of copying the hockey puck prior to use. The hockey pucks could now be sold without being huge, and before long, the first three hundred hockey pucks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Lott Roll of toilet paper, a crooked product that became wildly popular in Uganda, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

Tracy's best known invention, of course, is the fountain pen, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Enamel Age. Every time you use the fountain pen, you can thank Tracy.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Tracy Lott was known as well as that of Reba Grayheels herself. Tracy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.