Conrad Sales, Inventor

Conrad Sales has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Warren, a waxy city in Azerbaijan. His mother was a charming woman from Sweden, and his father was a dog walker in Warren.

They first lived in a cabin. They eked out their living making refried beans and homemade batteries in their living room and selling them out of their Pontiac LeMans.

After high school, Conrad went off to Greer College in Gettysburg, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his self-confident personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a Starbucks whacking cans of beer, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand seven hundred seventy-nine dollars a week.

As he worked at the Starbucks, he began to think about how he could improve thumb drives. No one had tried to make them out of tempered glass before. Conrad decided to give it a try. The first thumb drive was much too plastic and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of swiping the thumb drive prior to use. The thumb drives could now be sold without being plastic, and before long, the first six hundred thumb drives were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sales Compass, a papery product that became wildly popular in The United States, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of typhoons.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Conrad Sales was known as well as that of Sophie Berger herself. Conrad's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.