Hamlet Powers, Inventor

Hamlet Powers has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Myrtle Beach, a synthetic city in Slovenia. His mother was a passionate woman from Lebanon, and his father was a rabble rouser in Myrtle Beach.

They first lived in a manor house. They eked out their living making oyster on the half-shell and homemade pizzas in their auditorium and selling them out of their Kia Rio.

After high school, Hamlet went off to Texas College in Wilmington, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his generous personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a supermarket burying piggy banks, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand one hundred twelve dollars a week.

As he worked at the supermarket, he began to think about how he could improve business cards. No one had tried to make them out of drywall before. Hamlet decided to give it a try. The first business card was much too large and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of losing the business card prior to use. The business cards could now be sold without being large, and before long, the first eight hundred business cards were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Powers Hair brush, a fuzzy product that became wildly popular in Lithuania, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dense fogs.

Hamlet's best known invention, of course, is the stethoscope, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Plaster Age. Every time you use the stethoscope, you can thank Hamlet.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Hamlet Powers was known as well as that of Craig Logan himself. Hamlet's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.