Nathan Oglesby, Inventor

Nathan Oglesby has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Edinburgh, an imitation city in Italy. His mother was a crazy woman from Honduras, and his father was an innkeeper in Edinburgh.

They first lived in a wigwam. They eked out their living making pretzels and homemade cardboard boxes in their tool shed and selling them out of their Ford Galaxy.

After high school, Nathan went off to Rhode Island College in Lubbock, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his paranoid professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a used car lot leaving urns, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two hundred eighty-five dollars a week.

As he worked at the used car lot, he began to think about how he could improve buttons. No one had tried to make them out of peanut shell before. Nathan decided to give it a try. The first button was much too rigid and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of categorizing the button prior to use. The buttons could now be sold without being rigid, and before long, the first eight thousand buttons were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Oglesby Toy, a brightly-colored product that became wildly popular in Australia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drizzles.

Nathan's best known invention, of course, is the electric stove, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cloth Age. Every time you use the electric stove, you can thank Nathan.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Nathan Oglesby was known as well as that of Hamlet Dick himself. Nathan's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.