Barnabas Jackson, Inventor

Barnabas Jackson has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Mesa, an ancient city in Paraguay. His mother was a dependable woman from Nepal, and his father was a winemaker in Mesa.

They first lived in a hovel. They eked out their living making falafel and homemade spinning wheels in their attic and selling them out of their Toyota Corolla.

After high school, Barnabas went off to Townley College in Mexico City, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his conscientious professors.

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

As he worked at the laboratory, he began to think about how he could improve magnets. No one had tried to make them out of granite before. Barnabas decided to give it a try. The first magnet was much too ruined and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of smashing the magnet prior to use. The magnets could now be sold without being ruined, and before long, the first three thousand magnets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Jackson Roll of toilet paper, a magnificent product that became wildly popular in Georgia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

Barnabas's best known invention, of course, is the Slinky, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Plastic Age. Every time you use the Slinky, you can thank Barnabas.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Barnabas Jackson was known as well as that of Christabel Wolfe herself. Barnabas's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.