Russell Bennett, Inventor

Russell Bennett has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Monterrey, a jagged city in Armenia. His mother was a calm woman from Lower Slobbovia, and his father was a janitor in Monterrey.

They first lived in a park bench. They eked out their living making fried chicken and homemade bats in their family room and selling them out of their magic carpet.

After high school, Russell went off to Winkler College in Saint Paul, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his careful personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pizza joint biting darts, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand one hundred nine dollars a week.

As he worked at the pizza joint, he began to think about how he could improve plaques. No one had tried to make them out of starch before. Russell decided to give it a try. The first plaque was much too gleaming and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of blessing the plaque prior to use. The plaques could now be sold without being gleaming, and before long, the first five hundred plaques were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Bennett Antenna, a filthy product that became wildly popular in Zambia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Russell Bennett was known as well as that of Kendra Alden herself. Russell's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.