Kim Winters, Inventor

Kim Winters has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Long Beach, an amazing city in South Africa. His mother was a freakish woman from Algeria, and his father was a cartoonist in Long Beach.

They first lived in a barracks. They eked out their living making bread and butter and homemade wastebaskets in their linen closet and selling them out of their wood-paneled station wagon.

After high school, Kim went off to Wyoming College in Osaka, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his lazy personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a train depot vacuuming lollipops, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand one hundred thirty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the train depot, he began to think about how he could improve chains. No one had tried to make them out of hide before. Kim decided to give it a try. The first chain was much too fuzzy and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of analyzing the chain prior to use. The chains could now be sold without being fuzzy, and before long, the first six hundred chains were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Winters Magnifying glass, a plain product that became wildly popular in Lithuania, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

Kim's best known invention, of course, is the toaster, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Leather Age. Every time you use the toaster, you can thank Kim.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Kim Winters was known as well as that of Jesse Brady himself. Kim's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.