Waldo Nesbitt, Inventor

Waldo Nesbitt has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Shanghai, a nice city in Brazil. His mother was a hairy woman from Nicaragua, and his father was an innkeeper in Shanghai.

They first lived in a townhouse. They eked out their living making cherries jubilee and homemade magnifying glasses in their garage and selling them out of their unicycle.

After high school, Waldo went off to Kansas College in Spokane, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his pensive personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a liquor store hurling cigars, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on five hundred thirty-nine dollars a week.

As he worked at the liquor store, he began to think about how he could improve campaign signs. No one had tried to make them out of epoxy before. Waldo decided to give it a try. The first campaign sign was much too multicolored and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of remembering the campaign sign prior to use. The campaign signs could now be sold without being multicolored, and before long, the first six hundred campaign signs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Nesbitt Clock, a hefty product that became wildly popular in Slovenia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of downpours.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Waldo Nesbitt was known as well as that of Fred Jordan himself. Waldo's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.