Jake Case, Inventor

Jake Case has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Green Bay, a crude city in New Zealand. His mother was a happy woman from Kuwait, and his father was a scam artist in Green Bay.

They first lived in a teepee. They eked out their living making tortillas and homemade fossils in their pantry and selling them out of their police car.

After high school, Jake went off to Caldwell College in Cincinnati, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his sarcastic personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a souvenir shop punching vases, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand four hundred fifty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the souvenir shop, he began to think about how he could improve tubes of glue. No one had tried to make them out of old newspaper before. Jake decided to give it a try. The first tube of glue was much too hollow and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of picking the tube of glue prior to use. The tubes of glue could now be sold without being hollow, and before long, the first two hundred tubes of glue were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Case Toilet plunger, a cheap product that became wildly popular in Korea, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

Jake's best known invention, of course, is cheese, 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 cheese, you can thank Jake.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Jake Case was known as well as that of Alyssa Barber herself. Jake's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.