Lee Noonan, Inventor

Lee Noonan has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Kansas City, a brittle city in Lebanon. His mother was an obese woman from Somalia, and his father was a film producer in Kansas City.

They first lived in a dugout. They eked out their living making ham and homemade darts in their parlor and selling them out of their covered wagon.

After high school, Lee went off to Nebraska College in Auckland, but had to drop out after only five years, due to his disgusting personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a cigar store grinding crutches, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand two hundred sixty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the cigar store, he began to think about how he could improve combs. No one had tried to make them out of seaweed before. Lee decided to give it a try. The first comb was much too crusty and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of banishing the comb prior to use. The combs could now be sold without being crusty, and before long, the first three hundred combs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Noonan Air compressor, a rancid product that became wildly popular in Romania, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drizzles.

Lee's best known invention, of course, is the contact lens, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Nylon Age. Every time you use the contact lens, you can thank Lee.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lee Noonan was known as well as that of Buddy Busch himself. Lee's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.