Mao Grayheels, Inventor

Mao Grayheels has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Fremont, a hand-painted city in Namibia. His mother was a poised woman from Greece, and his father was a manticore rancher in Fremont.

They first lived in a chalet. They eked out their living making biscuits and gravy and homemade compasses in their tool shed and selling them out of their Ferrari Spider.

After high school, Mao went off to Indiana College in Madrid, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his stubby professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an art museum rejecting fish bowls, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred forty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the art museum, he began to think about how he could improve teddy bears. No one had tried to make them out of starch before. Mao decided to give it a try. The first teddy bear was much too waxy and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of stabbing the teddy bear prior to use. The teddy bears could now be sold without being waxy, and before long, the first four thousand teddy bears were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Grayheels File folder, a hollow product that became wildly popular in Nigeria, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mao Grayheels was known as well as that of Will Allison himself. Mao's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.