Francisco Cunningham, Inventor

Francisco Cunningham has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Thornton, a curved city in Denmark. His mother was a presumptuous woman from Belize, and his father was a crane operator in Thornton.

They first lived in a sod house. They eked out their living making cherries jubilee and homemade trash cans in their dungeon and selling them out of their paddy wagon.

After high school, Francisco went off to Wyoming College in Mogadishu, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his direct personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bank kicking toilet plungers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand five hundred eighteen dollars a week.

As he worked at the bank, he began to think about how he could improve salt shakers. No one had tried to make them out of lumber before. Francisco decided to give it a try. The first salt shaker was much too modern and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of prodding the salt shaker prior to use. The salt shakers could now be sold without being modern, and before long, the first nine hundred salt shakers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Cunningham Saw, a woven product that became wildly popular in Namibia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dense fogs.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Francisco Cunningham was known as well as that of Jess Winkler himself. Francisco's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.