Manfred Brontsky, Inventor

Manfred Brontsky has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Tokyo, a hand-painted city in Armenia. His mother was a big woman from Guatemala, and his father was a colonel in Tokyo.

They first lived in a cardboard box. They eked out their living making falafel and homemade teacups in their pool room and selling them out of their Jeep Cherokee.

After high school, Manfred went off to Krivosha College in Brussels, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his unruffled personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a grocery store trimming horseshoes, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two hundred twelve dollars a week.

As he worked at the grocery store, he began to think about how he could improve chairs. No one had tried to make them out of rammed earth before. Manfred decided to give it a try. The first chair was much too frilly and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of washing the chair prior to use. The chairs could now be sold without being frilly, and before long, the first eight hundred chairs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Brontsky Bone, a leather product that became wildly popular in Sri Lanka, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Manfred Brontsky was known as well as that of Clara Morrissey herself. Manfred's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.