Gunther Tuckerman, Inventor

Gunther Tuckerman has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Portland, a delicate city in Italy. His mother was an amiable woman from New Zealand, and his father was a goldsmith in Portland.

They first lived in a manor house. They eked out their living making roast Cornish game hen and homemade blank checks in their conservatory and selling them out of their Chevy Caprice.

After high school, Gunther went off to Gordon College in Warsaw, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his menacing personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pet shop curling calculators, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand seven hundred fifty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the pet shop, he began to think about how he could improve snails. No one had tried to make them out of gold brick before. Gunther decided to give it a try. The first snail was much too polka-dotted and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of disguising the snail prior to use. The snails could now be sold without being polka-dotted, and before long, the first six hundred snails were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Tuckerman Pop bottle, a greasy product that became wildly popular in Macedonia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Gunther'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 Alpaca hair Age. Every time you use the fountain pen, you can thank Gunther.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Gunther Tuckerman was known as well as that of Emma Stetson herself. Gunther's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.