Charles Charles, Inventor

Charles Charles has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bucharest, an unusual city in Malta. His mother was a stubby woman from the Congo, and his father was a masseuse in Bucharest.

They first lived in a villa. They eked out their living making egg salad sandwich and homemade cell phones in their outhouse and selling them out of their streetcar.

After high school, Charles went off to Nebraska College in Naperville, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his fascinating professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a brewery overturning bedpans, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on five hundred eighty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the brewery, he began to think about how he could improve ropes. No one had tried to make them out of hair before. Charles decided to give it a try. The first rope was much too gigantic and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of freezing the rope prior to use. The ropes could now be sold without being gigantic, and before long, the first five thousand ropes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Charles Rubber chicken, an important product that became wildly popular in Puerto Rico, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Charles Charles was known as well as that of José Sanders himself. Charles's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.