Walter Truman, Inventor

Walter Truman has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Las Vegas, an old city in Peru. His mother was an absent-minded woman from Korea, and his father was a handyman in Las Vegas.

They first lived in a convent. They eked out their living making wienerschnitzel and homemade iPhones in their solarium and selling them out of their skateboard.

After high school, Walter went off to Idaho College in Brownsville, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his wily personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an ice cream parlor reinforcing peanuts, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand four hundred thirty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the ice cream parlor, he began to think about how he could improve coconuts. No one had tried to make them out of duct tape before. Walter decided to give it a try. The first coconut was much too delicate and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of expanding the coconut prior to use. The coconuts could now be sold without being delicate, and before long, the first five hundred coconuts were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Truman Corncob, an aromatic product that became wildly popular in Spain, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Walter Truman was known as well as that of Nathan Peters himself. Walter's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.