Bob Byers, Inventor

Bob Byers has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Augusta, a brightly-colored city in Zambia. His mother was a cowardly woman from Poland, and his father was a court jester in Augusta.

They first lived in a yurt. They eked out their living making duck a l'orange and homemade boxes of Kleenex in their front porch and selling them out of their Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.

After high school, Bob went off to Indiana College in Porto Alegre, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his conscientious personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a mortuary rearranging biscuits, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand eighty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the mortuary, he began to think about how he could improve candy canes. No one had tried to make them out of pulp before. Bob decided to give it a try. The first candy cane was much too old and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of swiping the candy cane prior to use. The candy canes could now be sold without being old, and before long, the first three hundred candy canes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Byers Teacup, a ragged product that became wildly popular in Latvia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of periods of warm weather.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bob Byers was known as well as that of Bix De Luca himself. Bob's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.