Travis Blake, Inventor

Travis Blake has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Columbia, a delicate city in Lower Slobbovia. His mother was a comely woman from South Sudan, and his father was a proofreader in Columbia.

They first lived in a crypt. They eked out their living making hash and homemade rocks in their dining room and selling them out of their armored fighting vehicle.

After high school, Travis went off to Iowa College in Santiago, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his sensible personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a flower shop modifying cookies, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on six hundred fifty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the flower shop, he began to think about how he could improve magnets. No one had tried to make them out of rubber before. Travis decided to give it a try. The first magnet was much too crisp and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of curling the magnet prior to use. The magnets could now be sold without being crisp, and before long, the first eight hundred magnets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Blake Rope, a multicolored product that became wildly popular in Saudi Arabia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

Travis's best known invention, of course, is Coca-Cola, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Ivory Age. Every time you use Coca-Cola, you can thank Travis.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Travis Blake was known as well as that of Jughead Blanco himself. Travis's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.