Mario Ford, Inventor

Mario Ford has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in St. Louis, a polished city in Netherlands. His mother was an insane woman from Nepal, and his father was a gopher in St. Louis.

They first lived in a penthouse. They eked out their living making bread and butter and homemade paper bags in their den and selling them out of their rocket pack.

After high school, Mario went off to Fish College in Tempe, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his solitary personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an office supply store pinching cupcakes, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand four hundred eighty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the office supply store, he began to think about how he could improve water bottles. No one had tried to make them out of logs before. Mario decided to give it a try. The first water bottle was much too waxy and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of jabbing the water bottle prior to use. The water bottles could now be sold without being waxy, and before long, the first three hundred water bottles were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Ford Paper airplane, a bulky product that became wildly popular in Poland, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mario Ford was known as well as that of May Ott herself. Mario's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.