Edwin Cotton, Inventor

Edwin Cotton has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Macon, a luxurious city in Albania. His mother was a yappy woman from Poland, and his father was an obstetrician in Macon.

They first lived in a barracks. They eked out their living making borscht and homemade lollipops in their game room and selling them out of their Honda Civic.

After high school, Edwin went off to Connecticut College in Plano, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his heavyset personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a photography studio spinning stacks of papers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand six hundred five dollars a week.

As he worked at the photography studio, he began to think about how he could improve Kindles. No one had tried to make them out of string before. Edwin decided to give it a try. The first Kindle was much too huge and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of remembering the Kindle prior to use. The Kindles could now be sold without being huge, and before long, the first three hundred Kindles were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Cotton Pickle, a leather product that became wildly popular in Rwanda, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

Edwin's best known invention, of course, is the perpetual motion machine, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Tar Age. Every time you use the perpetual motion machine, you can thank Edwin.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Edwin Cotton was known as well as that of Nick Şerban himself. Edwin's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.