Elmer Barrett, Inventor

Elmer Barrett has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Eugene, a nice city in Vietnam. His mother was an urbane woman from El Salvador, and his father was a soldier in Eugene.

They first lived in a spa. They eked out their living making cookies and homemade bedpans in their boudoir and selling them out of their bobsled.

After high school, Elmer went off to Arkansas College in San Antonio, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his dreadful professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a newsstand scuffing toilet plungers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nine hundred thirty-one dollars a week.

As he worked at the newsstand, he began to think about how he could improve pigeons. No one had tried to make them out of linen before. Elmer decided to give it a try. The first pigeon was much too ordinary and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of dusting the pigeon prior to use. The pigeons could now be sold without being ordinary, and before long, the first three thousand pigeons were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Barrett Fire hose, a big product that became wildly popular in Turkey, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Elmer Barrett was known as well as that of Julian Mitchell himself. Elmer's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.