Trent Owen, Inventor

Trent Owen has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Oslo, a miniature city in Kazakhstan. His mother was a cautious woman from Easter Island, and his father was a judge in Oslo.

They first lived in a loft. They eked out their living making popcorn and homemade horseshoes in their garage and selling them out of their pickup.

After high school, Trent went off to Finlayson College in Shanghai, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his atrocious professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a butcher shop understanding stacks of papers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand five hundred thirty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the butcher shop, he began to think about how he could improve diaries. No one had tried to make them out of ceramic before. Trent decided to give it a try. The first diary was much too polka-dotted and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of melting the diary prior to use. The diaries could now be sold without being polka-dotted, and before long, the first two thousand diaries were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Owen Fish, a prickly product that became wildly popular in Peru, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of windy days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Trent Owen was known as well as that of Claudia Goldberg herself. Trent's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.