Tracy Witherbee, Inventor

Tracy Witherbee has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Porto Alegre, a bulky city in Bolivia. His mother was a brazen woman from Russia, and his father was a nuclear physicist in Porto Alegre.

They first lived in a nunnery. They eked out their living making hot dogs and homemade shovels in their attic and selling them out of their Cougar.

After high school, Tracy went off to Nebraska College in Bull Run, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his obese personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a dry cleaner seizing pails, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three hundred sixty dollars a week.

As he worked at the dry cleaner, he began to think about how he could improve computers. No one had tried to make them out of ivory before. Tracy decided to give it a try. The first computer was much too bizarre and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of bathing the computer prior to use. The computers could now be sold without being bizarre, and before long, the first nine hundred computers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Witherbee Bone, an important product that became wildly popular in Belgium, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Tracy Witherbee was known as well as that of Clyde Ivanov himself. Tracy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.