Miguel Magnusson, Inventor

Miguel Magnusson has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Havana, a shiny city in Laos. His mother was a zany woman from Saudi Arabia, and his father was a film producer in Havana.

They first lived in a chalet. They eked out their living making fried chicken and homemade wrenches in their dining room and selling them out of their Alfa Romeo.

After high school, Miguel went off to Missouri College in Santiago, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his funny personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bank jabbing saws, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand five hundred two dollars a week.

As he worked at the bank, he began to think about how he could improve coat hangers. No one had tried to make them out of Sheetrock before. Miguel decided to give it a try. The first coat hanger was much too immense and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shaving the coat hanger prior to use. The coat hangers could now be sold without being immense, and before long, the first two hundred coat hangers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Magnusson Rubik's cube, a speckled product that became wildly popular in Denmark, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of earthquakes.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Miguel Magnusson was known as well as that of Aiden Yamaguchi himself. Miguel's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.