Oscar Emery, Inventor

Oscar Emery has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Beijing, an ancient city in Serbia. His mother was a dependable woman from Argentina, and his father was a dog catcher in Beijing.

They first lived in a palace. They eked out their living making pot roast and homemade coloring books in their bedroom and selling them out of their Hummer.

After high school, Oscar went off to Michigan College in Concord, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his insane professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a popcorn shop frying pairs of fuzzy dice, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on seven hundred ninety-one dollars a week.

As he worked at the popcorn shop, he began to think about how he could improve packages. No one had tried to make them out of bamboo before. Oscar decided to give it a try. The first package was much too ancient and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of wrapping the package prior to use. The packages could now be sold without being ancient, and before long, the first two thousand packages were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Emery Stuffed bunny, a huge product that became wildly popular in China, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blizzards.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Oscar Emery was known as well as that of Ivan Brady himself. Oscar's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.