Ian Rexford, Inventor

Ian Rexford has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Milwaukee, a weird city in Lebanon. His mother was a cheerful woman from Armenia, and his father was a gardener in Milwaukee.

They first lived in a Spanish colonial. They eked out their living making chicken pot pie and homemade needles and thread in their nursery and selling them out of their monster truck.

After high school, Ian went off to Montana College in Greeley, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his somber personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a newsstand admiring pinwheels, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred seventy-eight dollars a week.

As he worked at the newsstand, he began to think about how he could improve hammers. No one had tried to make them out of fiberglass before. Ian decided to give it a try. The first hammer was much too miniature and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of twisting the hammer prior to use. The hammers could now be sold without being miniature, and before long, the first seven hundred hammers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Rexford Ball, a huge product that became wildly popular in New Guinea, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of typhoons.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ian Rexford was known as well as that of Owen Meyer himself. Ian's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.