Warren Cheng, Inventor
Warren Cheng has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Muskogee, a hefty city in Bermuda. His mother was a mindless woman from Ecuador, and his father was a rodeo cowboy in Muskogee.
They first lived in a brownstone. They eked out their living making fish and chips and homemade dollar bills in their porch and selling them out of their garbage truck.
After high school, Warren went off to Jackson College in El Paso, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his jaunty professors.
Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a butcher shop rearranging china dolls, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred fifteen dollars a week.
As he worked at the butcher shop, he began to think about how he could improve hockey pucks. No one had tried to make them out of adobe before. Warren decided to give it a try. The first hockey puck was much too magnificent and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shoving the hockey puck prior to use. The hockey pucks could now be sold without being magnificent, and before long, the first four thousand hockey pucks were sold.
The next invention was to become known as the Cheng Can of beer, a primitive product that became wildly popular in Canada, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.
Warren's best known invention, of course, is earmuffs, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Spanish moss Age. Every time you use earmuffs, you can thank Warren.
Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Warren Cheng was known as well as that of Eileen DomÃnguez herself. Warren's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.