Lucifer Dodds, Inventor

Lucifer Dodds has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Chicago, a tiny city in Bahrain. His mother was a fearless woman from Ireland, and his father was a winemaker in Chicago.

They first lived in a bungalow. They eked out their living making lobster and homemade coloring books in their bedroom and selling them out of their Chevrolet Cavalier.

After high school, Lucifer went off to Alden College in Atlanta, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his loving personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an insurance agency prohibiting bowling balls, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred ninety-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the insurance agency, he began to think about how he could improve contracts. No one had tried to make them out of iron before. Lucifer decided to give it a try. The first contract was much too musty and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of photographing the contract prior to use. The contracts could now be sold without being musty, and before long, the first eight hundred contracts were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dodds Dollhouse, a small product that became wildly popular in South Africa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of floods.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lucifer Dodds was known as well as that of Celia Kuma herself. Lucifer's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.