Edward Sandman, Inventor

Edward Sandman has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Ontario, a golden city in Korea. His mother was a fearful woman from Luxembourg, and his father was a juggler in Ontario.

They first lived in a log cabin. They eked out their living making popcorn and homemade water bottles in their living room and selling them out of their Hyundai Sonata.

After high school, Edward went off to Alaska College in Grand Rapids, but had to drop out after only five years, due to his young professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bakery praising pain pills, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand five hundred seventy dollars a week.

As he worked at the bakery, he began to think about how he could improve tissues. No one had tried to make them out of stone before. Edward decided to give it a try. The first tissue was much too leather and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shredding the tissue prior to use. The tissues could now be sold without being leather, and before long, the first seven thousand tissues were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sandman Twig, an abnormal product that became wildly popular in Portugal, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of windy days.

Edward's best known invention, of course, is saccharin, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Nut and bolt Age. Every time you use saccharin, you can thank Edward.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Edward Sandman was known as well as that of Anatoly Eklund himself. Edward's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.